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Stonehenge

Saturday 10th January 2004

"I am going to Stonehenge in Saturday
The tour I am taking is with Astral Travels, and is called the "Magical Tour"
If it is raining and miserable they change it to "Stones and Bones" tour but I will let you know.
I am going with Cath, a girl from the hostel so there will be more photos to come"

Click on the logo for all the details on the "Magical Tour" and the "Stones and Bones Tour"

NOTE FROM TANYA
"I had organised to go on the tour with Cath who lives at the hostel.
We purchased the "Magical Tour" but due to rainy weather we ended up doing the "Stone and Bones Tour"

Click here to read all about Tanya's day,
which in her words "was one of the best tours that I have been on!"

NOTE - this page contains 29 thumbnail images
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(simply click on the thumbnail image to see the photo and details)

Old Sarum - Castle and Cathedral ruins

Castle ruins (three photos)--- Cathedral ruins

Salisbury - Cathedral

Looking from Old Sarum towards Salisbury - and the Cathedral spire can easily be seen

The Cathedral (three photos)--- Inside the Cathedral (two photos)

Gardens inside the Cathedral grounds--- Walkways around the gardens

The oldest clock in Europe--- Gates around the Cathedral--- Curfew times

The Magna Carta

"Another thing that they had at Salisbury Cathedral is the original Magna Carta
I had a good look at that and bought a translation
I remember a print of it used to be hanging at Reaston Lawyers (Cairns) when I worked there
So I thought that was pretty cool"

The document and the reasons for it - plus a link to a full translation

Stonehenge

"After lunch it was time to go to Stonehenge
I absolutely loved it
It was quite bizzare though
in that you just come up over the hill and it is sitting beside the main highway
I guess I thought you would have to drive down a little dirt track or something
like you do to most places at home!
Shows how much I know
You can't get right up to them but we got close enough
It was really amazing and I could have spent much longer there"

(four photos)--- (three photos)

Taken from the underpass (two photos)

The Chalk Horses

The top soil--- "The Chalk Horse" (two photos)

Avebury

Stone Circles--- "The Red Fox" - a pub with a thatched roof

Tanya

At Old Sarum Castle ruins--- At Stonehenge (two photos)

"Divining for lay-lines" in Avebury (two photos)

Tanya and Cath

Tanya and Cath at Stonehenge

Postcards sent over by Tanya

The Henge - largest stone circle in the British Isles

White Horses of England - four examples

Salisbury Cathedral

Stonehenge (two postcards)

Old Sarum Castle and Cathedral (two postcards)

Crop Circles and Stonehenge

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