I'm running a little behind here, this is from last Friday's visit to Stonehenge and Salisbury (pronounced: Salzbury). Stonehenge was one of the places that we stopped at in 2000, and I remembered being slightly...not disappointed, but surprised at at how small it is in person. Don't get me wrong, the stones are huge, but it always looks larger in person. That probably has something to do with the fact that most of the pictures you see don't have any people in them so there is no sense of scale. It was more exciting this time because our tour guide explained the history and the theories of what it was used for on the way. It certainly makes you have a better appreciation of the engineering involved. It is estimated that it was built around 3100 BC. For more information, go to the Stonehenge website.
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