Stonehenge

We started our journey early in the morning, we took a taxi to Waterloo Station. We arrived way too early for the train so I sat for about an hour before the train came.



This is a shop in Waterloo station with a name that I thought was funny for a clothing store.

The Stonehenge Stones.
We only stayed at Stonehenge for about an hour before we got back on the bus that would bring us back to the train station. we needed to get on a ferry that night that would bring us from England to France.
I had this for dinner at a Wagamama in Portsmouth before we took our ferry to France.

This is the view out of the window of our cabin on the ferry.

Just before we went to sleep we looked inside of a shop on the boat to find an enormous 350g Toblerone bar, I bought it, it was delicious.

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  1. RogerApril 18, 2017 at 1:33 AM

    Charlie, I notice that you and Baba spent only an hour at Stonehenge. That's about 45 minutes longer than what Miriam and I spent there in 1987. I stayed there only long enough to scrawl "Roger Loves Miriam" on one of the stones. Over the years many theories have been presented to explain why the stones were "built." None of them, in my opinion, are convincing, but all of them have their supporters. A persistent, though easily discredited theory, is that they were built as giant kiosks. The thinking is that people would swing by and post marriage announcements, for sale signs, concert information, and the like. The problem is that the locals didn't have writing, paper and Scotch Tape as we do today. Another theory, a somewhat better one, is that they were part of a giant croquet set. Players would use large wooden mallets as they do today and knock large stones around each of the stone 'posts' until there were no more posts. Stonehenge was built around the same time as the last Egyptian pyramid. To Egyptologists that's significant, because we know that about 2400 BC the pharaoh dispatched to the British Isles his vizier, his Special Assistant in Charge of Mummification. Today the thinking is that it was to Stonehenge that he went, where he told the locals to use stone and not bronze or copper, because things made out of copper and bronze have to be polished from time to time to keep them looking nice.

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