We spent the last couple of days alternating between shopping and seeing the sights. The shopping has been for boring stuff like soap, a suit, and groceries. It’s funny how much LESS stuff you buy at the store when you know that you have to carry it home! Here’s another armchair economic theory-guess: I bet that the US consumer driven economy depends on the ease with which US consumers can transport and then store goods. In and environment where everyone drives a big car and has a big apartment/house to live in, you’re more likely to buy a bunch of stuff because it won’t be a pain in the ass to get it home, and you’ll have somewhere to put it when you get there! I’ve notice that I have skipped a TON of purchases since I’ve been here because I didn’t want to deal with dragging whatever it was home, let alone trying to find somewhere to put it. Whatev.
Mom and I went down to london yesterday to catch the bus out to Stonehenge. We took a quick look at Westminster Abbey and Parliament square while we waited for the “astral tours” bus out to Salisbury and the stones.
mom at Westminster and at big ben
We got some chinese to go food, got on the tour bus, and started our journey. They picked us up at 1pm, and brought us back at 9:30, so it was a very very long day. But, the trip was well worth the trouble. We saw the west kennet long barrow; the silbury hill, which is basically a giant neolithic pile of dirt that no one really know the purpose of; the avebury stone circle, which is a sort of a way bigger but shittier version of Stonehenge where hippies and druids and weirdos and whatever congregate; and then finally, Stonehenge itself. Stonehenge is totally, utterly, super cool. It’s gigantic, beautiful, filled with neat history and frankly, moving. We got a special tour that goes after normal business hours, and lets you actually go up to and touch the stones. Most tourists have to look at it from a distance. The pictures pretty much say it all…
one of the bigger stones
this part is still pretty complete, but a lot of it has fallen down
I like this one of mom
2 comments:
That's true...I've only been to Avebury (and never Stonehenge), but it is total bullshit, and mainly for hippies. Besides, in some "pub" there I had the shittiest fish and chips ever, even bad for UK standards. Moreover, I'm mystified by all the postcards and stautes of prehistoric men with large penises they sell there.
they didn't know who they were....or...what they were doing...
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