Things we take for granted

[bellinghman]

Driving along the A303 on Monday under pregnant rainclouds, and passing Stonehenge.

(Coincidentally, the ancient road from Stonehenge to East Anglia is only 200 metres away from here at home, where it crosses a somewhat newer road. Newer, as in being the main Roman road between London and York, and not quite 2000 years old.)

And tomorrow, we'll be passing it again. One of these days we'll stop again and see it from close up.

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[pir.livejournal.com]

You can't get as close as I remember from the first time I was there, while quite young, when I climbed over some of them looking for the markings on the stones that were mentioned in the kids guidebook. Apparently tourists were damaging the stones too much with graffiti and such. Bastards.

I've shown two cute Americans around Stonehenge and Avebury in the last few years and last time I even took pictures.