http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Wiltshire/Stonehenge/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , United Kingdom , England , Wiltshire , Stonehenge en-us Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:48:04 BST Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:48:04 BST This morning we left really early to make the long journey to Stonehenge. We arrived at Salisbury at about 1040am but it took us a while to figure out which bus to take and where to catch it. By the time we figured it out we had just missed a bus so we decided to visit Salisbury Cathedral first. This cathedral is so beautiful. It only took 38 years to build and most medieval cathedrals t http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Wiltshire/Stonehenge/blog-325503.html Did a day trip up to Stonehenge and Salisbury and caught up with my dearest friend and partner in crime Naomi. Was blown away by this structure and how it was constructed thousands of years ago. Salisbury is a cute little English town known for its cathedral. http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Wiltshire/Stonehenge/blog-322297.html Since we arrived in London it has been unseasonably cold and rainy. I was exhilarating to see a blue sunny sky on the day we traveled through country roads to see the famous Stonehenge.I read about this prehistoric monument in books. I watched it on the Discovery channel. Finally I saw the Stonehenge with my own eyes.Situated in a vast plain Stonehenge was truly impressive I was awed by thes http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Wiltshire/Stonehenge/blog-314786.html Today we went on a bus tour over to Bath and Stonehenge. http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Wiltshire/Stonehenge/blog-307455.html 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 ou http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Wiltshire/Stonehenge/blog-290783.html 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 b http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Wiltshire/Stonehenge/blog-290068.html I think they are as pretty as the pictures. I wasn't able to get very close due to the fence around them. http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Wiltshire/Stonehenge/blog-256797.html 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 th http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Wiltshire/Stonehenge/blog-249718.html Stonehenge http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Wiltshire/Stonehenge/blog-218329.html 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 ju http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Wiltshire/Stonehenge/blog-209189.html 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 firstever trip to Europe. Stonehenge is one of the mustgo 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 S http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Wiltshire/Stonehenge/blog-208213.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Wiltshire/Stonehenge/blog-205222.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Wiltshire/Stonehenge/blog-203306.html We rose early for a preplanned bus shudder daytrip out to Windsor Castle Bath Stonehenge. Our tour guide Deborah was an absolute classic and knew London and England extremely well and kept us entertained the whole day.First stop was Windsor Castle which was a grand old castle with a fantastic collection of old weaponry art and other royal paraphernalia. It was great to go into the r http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Wiltshire/Stonehenge/blog-194400.html Jay and I have been looking forward to seeing Stonehenge for years. I'd been telling my art appreciation students about the history of the place there were actually three different versions formations of stone in history and a wooden version Woodhenge before that. I felt like a bit of a fraud telling people about a place I had never seen. We now had our chance. The rolling hills of around St http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Wiltshire/Stonehenge/blog-188563.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Wiltshire/Stonehenge/blog-184750.html Starting offHey guys thanks for subscribing to my travelblog you will now be inundated about random facts and Laraadventures 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 alreadyCheck back soon LOVE http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Wiltshire/Stonehenge/blog-181571.html Stonehenge Salisbury WinchesternbspEurope raquonbspUnited Kingdom raquonbspEngland raquonbspStonehenge By USinUKJuly 12th 2007 Today we started very early. We had a private access tour at Stonehenge at 615 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 sto http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Wiltshire/Stonehenge/blog-181244.html Hi allI've just signed up to this Travel Blog so im testing it out for size... it seems pretty fun. Today i went to Swindon got lost on all the roundabouts but actually made it over the magic one solo without trouble at all. Cool.Here's til next time..xx http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Wiltshire/Stonehenge/blog-178538.html Today we took a bunch of jumbled up trains from Portsmouth and eventually wound up in Salisbury where we caught a bus to Stonehenge. Stonehenge was very interesting and while you can't get right up to the stones you can certainly get close enough to see them quite well. I took tons of pictures and it was all very good. They have a free audio tour which came with admission and told us all kinds of http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Wiltshire/Stonehenge/blog-178079.html Day 11 Tues May 8th We had to leave our wonderful BB today. We were the only guests this morning and they made us such a great breakfast. I could totally get use to this kind of living someone else to cook for you all the time. Tim would say I already have that hehehellip.We drove onwards to Bath today. We got to Bath at about noon and I immediately liked it. It really is a charming Ge http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Wiltshire/Stonehenge/blog-159473.html Salisbury Water Meadows Cathedral Poultry Cross but No SteakWe arrive at Waterloo Station with 15 minutes to spare to grab some baguette sandwiches and withdraw yet more money from the ATM. Who can live in London Wersquove seen one show and are broke again and even with a student concession this London Walks trip is about to run us 42 apiece. Our guide Chris has no problems raising he http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Wiltshire/Stonehenge/blog-156180.html Well it's been a while since Ive made a blog now and a few things have happened. My buddy justin celebrated his 21st birthday. For some reason here thats a big deal. The legal age is 18... so why the 21st is a big deal doesn't quite faze me... but none the less it was a shit fest. I met up with the guy at 800pm and he was already pissed. We started pub hopping having a drink and continuing o http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Wiltshire/Stonehenge/blog-154473.html I spent my 25th birthday wandering around Stonehenge and Salisbury. I was fully ready for the tourism that is Stonehenge and the ropes and fees and restrictions that come along with it. So being fully prepared I wasn't at all disappointed. I thought it was nice and still has pretty good vibes. Like all things in England it was a ridiculously expensive 50 roundtrip train 14 for a 25 minute http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Wiltshire/Stonehenge/blog-153451.html Rightio Apologies for not updating the travel blog. have been working and funnily enough...enjoying it Schools are definitely different from Australia and New Zealand but thats because the cultural element in schools are diverse and makes it all the more interesting. Have met hundreds of kiwis but hardly any aussies. Well not a lot to report. Unfortunately we couldn't make it to Greece to se http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Wiltshire/Stonehenge/blog-149339.html UntitledStonehenge was constructed in three phases. It has been estimated that the three phases of the construction required more than thirty million hours of labour. Speculation on the reason it was built range from human sacrifice to astronomyThe purpose was to Worship the Moon and the Sun. http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Wiltshire/Stonehenge/blog-140607.html Mum and I set off from Angel to connect with our tour bus which would take us to Stonehenge Bath through the Cotswolds and into Stratford upon Avon to see the birthplace of William Shakespeare. It was a lovely trip through some beautiful parts of Southwest England.Stonehenge is one of Englands most popular tourist sites and always crowded The 5000 year old stone circle remains a mystery as to w http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Wiltshire/Stonehenge/blog-138273.html So the other day this lady came into the pub and wasn't sure what to ask for in 'English terms' she wanted a lager and lime even I knew this catching on I tell you. So she is about to pay takes out her wallet and I see a good ol' Ontario licence. So we get talking about where we're from. I then tell her I worked at CT on Younge and Church and she was like oh then you know Sidney As it turn http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Wiltshire/Stonehenge/blog-94581.html Consider Stonehenge checked off the list of Places to see before you die. We toured the giant tourist stones in the rain which Im learning is not actually typical of England. The audiotour left me unsatisfied...still no answers to Who moved these 45 tonne stones Why did they do it And even more importantly how in the world did they get them here The audiotour only provided the ans http://www.travelblog.org//Europe/United-Kingdom/England/Wiltshire/Stonehenge/blog-90800.html