366 Photos - 16/366 - Clouds over Stonehenge

[byslantedlight]

Today was a going-to-Stonehenge day. Just cos.




Even the carpark was pretty impressive, cloud-wise... *g*I've been before with the new visitor centre, but this time I decided to walk from there to the stones, and it was actually really nice. It wasn't exactly a peaceful ancient landscape (they were bombing hell out of something somewhere on the Plain, you can still hear the A303, they have the noisiest shuttle buses I've heard for years, and people were allowed to take their children), but you can wander all over the landscape now, which always felt fenced up before, so that was rather good. And I'm always surprised by the way Stonehenge doesn't stand out in the landscape (it's almost in a dip until you get close to it), which wasn't really noticeable before.

Also there's a gift shop, and I may have bought Christmas mead (which you drink warmed up) and a book that's started really well called Blood of the Isles - about our genetic heritage. *g*

Comments

[jessebee.livejournal.com]

Like the guardian sitting on the Stonehenge sign *g*.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I rather like the guardian too - actually there's lots of them around the area where the shuttle buses come in. They've always been around the stones, and on the fences going away from the stones, but I don't remember them being so friendly with visitors when the old visitor centre/carpark/road was there... I suppose they're expanding their territory now that the cars are gone! Plus the EH wardens feed them... *g*