We're back in London after spending last night in Amesbury, a tiny, eetsy, bitsy town, 2 miles from Stonehenge. We arranged a viewing with UK Heritage so we got to get up close and personal with the stones unlike most people who have to stand behind the rope, a respectable 20 feet away. From the freeway, relative to the green, hilly expanse around it, they look a little out of place and unimposing, like a pile of rubbles from an unfinished construction site. Up close, they're huge, impressive and they made you wonder what these people were thinking of when they were hauling these chunks of stones from hundreds of miles away. Why the location? Why the particular shapes? Why those stones? After viewing the stones and taking dozens of photographs, we decided to walk back
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