Stonehenge

[hafid]

just got back from a trip to london for a couple of weeks. decided to go to stonehenge and bath on a day trip and took some pix. for those of you that don't know, i used to live there until i was 15 and now we keep a flat there so visit often. the last time i was at stonehenge about 20 years ago. the beauty is that nothing has changed at all. it's the same old rocks in a field with nothing around but just some sheep chilling on the grass a few hundred feet away. the gift shop is underground across the street where you park. you really just do drive along a little road by a huge grass field and just see it in the distance and go "oh, that must be it!"

the question is, how do you make 5000 yr old rocks sitting in a field actually look interesting?



i didn't take too many pics on this trip b/c it was freezing cold and raining most of the time and didn't want to ruin my D60. but there are a few snaps of london, bath, and stonehenge in my album. if there the weather was a little better it would have been nice to take many more! i'll just have to wait till the next trip.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hafid/sets/1820991/

[dave]

Very cool. Thanks for sharing the whole album. I notice that one MINI snuck in there too. I really enjoy your travel photography. You do a great job of capturing a sense of place.

[koolmini]

Originally Posted by hafid

the question is: how do you make 5000 yr old rocks sitting in a field actually look interesting?

answer: drink a lot of beer

[Cooper_Si]

I remember when i went to see stonehenge, i was shocked that the sheep could get closer than i could :(

But you get a strange feeling when you walk around the stones...either that or is was mighty cold :D

[Electric Shock]

I went to Stonehenge years ago. I took a train and bus to get there from where I was staying. I was amazed at it not being made into much of a big deal. I was expecting some elaborate tourist type attraction. But it was just as you described - a parking lot. Now I can't remember if there was a gift shop - there was something by the parking lot but if it was a gift shop it was not open. I think it was just vending machines. But no tour guides - not much of anything as far as history or theories or anything.

Also Stonehenge was roped off because they had problems with people chipping away at the stones.

So the bus dropped me off. I went and looked at it from the proper side of the ropes, took some pictures, then had to wait another hour or so for the next bus.

[batgirlwildcat]

Fantastic, Haf! Thanks for sharing. Nice to see a MINI snuck in.

[azuul]

What about this?

Ha, faux Stonehenge in the Hill Country of South Texas. We had 17 MINIs on some spirited motoring. We stopped here and ran into the owner (well, not literally), and he told us to go ahead and put the MINIs in front of his Stonehenge II.

[azuul]

Or this one?