STONEHENGE!

We bundled up and headed to the Bath train station to catch a 1 hr ride to Salisbury (and a quick nap 😉), then bussed 30 min to the UNESCO Heritage Site.

I wiah we'd had more time in Salisbury so we could tour the Cathedral and the Sarum Castle, but we dedicated our whole day there to The Stones.

From the visitors center where the bus drops you off (along with its attached cafe and gift shop, of course), it was a 2km walk along a country road through farming fields with sheep and cows to the stones (or a shuttle ride).

The exhibit hall at the visitors center was fantastic, detailing the origin and development of the stones as well as what is known about human daily living of the time. They even had a human skeleton from the time and area and made a best-guess likeness of his face. Lots on the tools used to dig the trenches that encircle the stones and some replicas of what archeologists think their homes in a nearby village would have looked like.

Approaching the stones from the road, the path curved in a spiral, taking you closer and closer from the heel stone all the way to the outer circle of stones. Because of vandalism in the 1970s and '80s, we weren't permitted to walk among the stones themselves. But between the exhibit hall and the audio guide, you were able to learn a lot.

We did hightail it back on the shuttle as we knew A&E were about an hour ahead of us, already warming themselves back in the cafe.

Dinner was in Simon's and Devina's hometown of Bradford-on-Avon, after a quick tour of the town in the fading light. We got back to the train station just as the train was pulling up and hoofed it back to the AirBnB in time to collapse at 10pm.

Tomorrow, we'll visit Simon in his radio studio and then catch a train to London. Our plane is the following morning. 😭😭

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