In the last few weeks of my England stay, I'm trying to do as many things a possible. Upon asking anyone if they wanted to go to Stonehenge, Krystel informed me that they were going in two weeks for the Summer Solstice. This sounded like a good plan, so I signed up for the trip. Meeting up after work at Shaun and Krystel's house, the tree of us, and Matt and Gill headed to the famous stones in our stylish Mercedes-Benz. With a little help from Jane, our friendly TomTom (sat nav) voice, we were on our way and cruising... until [View Full Entry]

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This weekend we decided to hire a car and take off on a day trip with our friend Kathleen. Our first destination was the historic, Roman city of Bath. Bath is famous for its hot springs, Roman period baths, Medieval heritage and stately Georgian architecture. The drive to Bath took approximately 2 hours. We made our way to a car park and then wandered the streets and visited the Roman baths. The baths were built by the Romans about 2000 years ago and were later rediscovered by the Victorians. The baths are fueled by England's only mineral hot springs. The hot [View Full Entry]

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Last week was reading week at UCL. I regret to admit that I didn't do very much reading, but did enjoy not having classes. I worked a lot over the weekends and did some touring during the week, including Tate Modern, Stonehenge and Bath. I went to Tate Modern with my flatmate Martin and his friend from Brno in the Czech Republic who was visiting London for a few days. We started downstairs where there is a crack in the concrete at one end, which gets bigger and bigger and by the end of the room is a crevice that you [View Full Entry]

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Well, time to start my travel blog for my stay in the UK. Bear with me as I slowly figure out the odds and ends in this webpage and in my travel prose. Turns out that our foreign studies coordinator organized a trip for us yanks (haha) to go visit two really neat cultural sites, avebury and stonehenge. The ride out was nothing too eventful, basically slept the whole way, and woke up in time to just barely view the "largest pre-medieval mound in europe" basically a giant mount that took years of back breaking work to construct back in 4000 [View Full Entry]

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There's nothing like standing in a windy field with about 300 other people staring at some rocks except Stonehenge. Nice if they had finished it and put up a roof but otherwise I give the English an 'A' for effort. Hauling these rocks 384km from the coast was obviously the original 'Rock & Roll' so I imagine it was the thing to do on a Saturday night back in 3000BC. Unfortunately, no matter how drunk you get, pushing a big rock for a 1000 years will tire out even the most hardcore 'rockers' so I really can't blame them. After our [View Full Entry]

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So after renting our car. We drove down to Stonehenge. Now we thought that you were able to go and walk all about in the stones well at least that was my intention. To our dissapointment you have to set up a private access tour which is either when the close or when they open. So we did out little walk around with audio tour handset. One cool thing is that Stonehenge is like a massive sun and moon dial. It can show you when it's the summer Soltice or winter for example. Then two myths that they have are that [View Full Entry]

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In late August, I have been Stonehenge and Cambridge with my primary schoolmate, Ester, and her husband. How lucky I was in catching up the couple during their first-ever trip to Europe. Stonehenge is one of the must-go attractions in UK and I have been admiring to go there since I was young. We first arrived in Salisbury, a cozy little town, by an hour train ride from London, than took a bus to Stonehenge. Though Salisbury is a stop-over place, but it is worth visiting. You can find the old city walls and a magnificent normandic Salisbury Cathedral lying in [View Full Entry]

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Ok, so I figure I may as well get as much use out of the free internet at the hotel as I can...besides which it's raining...again..... so can't do a whole lot. Just went to the pub for dinner again and it's about 9.00pm here. becoming a local down there! cheap food and beer (for London) and cozy, mind you full of non locals which is no good!! Lots of families and too far to walk to the other one in this weather. Went on a day tour to Stonehenge & Bath today. Rained all day. When we finally got [View Full Entry]

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Starting off!!Hey guys, thanks for subscribing to my travelblog, you will now be inundated about random facts and Lara-adventures from around the globe, accross the pond. I'm so excited - it's 4 days til i leave ahhhHHhhhrrr, i have so much to sort out, think i'm on fiji time already!! Check back soon, LOVE!! [View Full Entry]

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Stonehenge, Salisbury & Winchester Europe » United Kingdom » England » Stonehenge By USinUK July 12th 2007 Today we started very early. We had a private access tour at Stonehenge at 6:15 am, so we left the hotel at 5am. And it was a very dreary morning, with rain on and off. The tour allowed us to go right into the stone circles and walk around an touch the stones - normally you can just view them from about 100 feet away. A sunny morning would have been nice, but... it was way, way, cool. Next was Salisbury, where we parked the car and promptly [View Full Entry]

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