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Published: July 11th 2014
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StonehengeI woke up around 8 this morning to catch my 8:30 tour with Madmax. Once I saw the bus and met our tour guide Tim, I got on. We drove for about an hour until we reached Stonehenge. It ended up costing me 12.50 pounds to get in as a student. They have a visitors center which is included in the ticket. They have a little safari looking trolley that takes you out to the henge, about a mile away. Once I got there, I got to roam around, but wasn’t able to touch the stones. Pictures make Stonehenge look a lot bigger than it actually is. When you look out at the scenery around Stonehenge, you see a lot of mounds in the distance. They are all burial mounds. In them remains of a human skeleton can be found with a dagger next to them. I learned a lot of things about Stonehenge that I didn't know before. Firstly, the druids didn't make it. They just came later and tried to do weird things there. Secondly, there are a lot of guesses about what it's purpose was but no one really has a clue ( I think it was for
Avebury stone.funerals). Thirdly, it was built 6000 years ago and the stones were beaten to shape them a certain way. Lastly, the stones came from two different areas one being in Wales. We got back on the bus and headed off to see Avebury. The henge at Avebury is about 10 times bigger than Stonehenge, but Stonehenge is in better condition. Avebury is pretty cool though because you can walk straight up to the stones and there are sheep just wandering around between the stones. The stones are in their natural state unlike stonehenge, and it was used for mating rituals and marriages. We got to spend about an hour there and it was pretty cool. Our next stop was the village Lacock. Lacock is well known for a few movies that were filmed there. The Lacock Abbey is where the scenes of places in Hogwarts like some of the classrooms and the corridor were filmed. Other parts of Lacock were used in BBC’s Pride and Prejudice. The town is only four streets big, so I ended up eating lunch there from the only local bakery. I decided to try a Cornish pastie. I still have no clue what it is,
stonehengebut it was good. It had potatoes and meat in it. After our lunch break we headed out to another little town named Castle Comb. This place was super small and used in filming the War Horse. Apparently Steven Spielberg paid all the house owners 150 pounds to use film their town and make sure they didn’t walk around when they were filming. This town is about 75 yards long, but property there is very expensive. A one bedroom house sold for 500,000 pounds. This was the last stop of our tour. When we were done we headed back to Bath. On my way back to the hostel, I stopped at the grocery store and bought bread, honey, and peanut butter. I’ll be eating sandwiches for dinner for the next two weeks! When I got back to my hostel, I was making my sandwich and a girl asked me if I was only eating bread. I replied, “Yeah, I’m cheap.” She was eating vegetables. Hopefully I can get better sleep tonight than last night. People were out late partying it up and woke me up all through the night. Someone is using the plug by my bed, so I must
White horse made by taking the grass out and letting the chalf of the mountain show.be on look out for them to remove it so I can plug in my stuff before I got to sleep. Wish me luck!
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