Stonehenge & Avebury

I took some time yesterday to drive out to Stonehenge and Avebury. I don't really know much about the sites, but everyone has to see it when they come to England. I think there's some sort of astrological implications about how the stone are arranged. Druids and all that, you know.

The Stonehenge picture is below, but also of interest is the small town of Avebury. There's a huge circle of stones there, probably 1/4 mile in diameter. Just outside the circle is a huge ditch about 40 feet deep. It was some sort of pre-English-history fort or something. Also, they think it might have astrological implications.

Anyway, the drive through the countryside was nice. It made a nice little day-trip from Bristol.


Stonehenge. This is as close as we could get because the place closed just before we got there. Oops.


This is a picture of the huge circle of rocks at Avebury. The guy standing there is my friend David. We met in Berlin when I visited my other friend Dan. David just moved to Bristol to work for Rolls-Royce.