After lunch on our Boxing Day day trip out of London, we
headed to Stonehenge. I honestly didn’t
expect to enjoy this part of our trip as much as I did considering what a
touristy attraction it was, but I have to say it was one of my favorite parts
of our whole trip, highlighting to me just how much I maybe enjoy landscapes
and walks or hikes on my travel over a lot of big city time. Stonehenge is set up with a lovely visitor
center over a mile from the actual stone circle and you can either hike to the
site from there or take a shuttle—we were limited in time (which we later found
out to be so important when our bus left a couple at Stonehenge when they didn’t
return to the bus at the designated time) so we unfortunately had to take the
shuttle both ways. The effect of not
having parking lots and souvenir shops and the café near the stone circle, as
well as having cordons to block access to the stones, was that you could try to
experience Stonehenge as it was when it was created thousands of years ago,
standing in a field amongst an expanse of rolling hills and tall grasses.
Audio guides were provided with stories and facts related to
numbered points of interest on the path around Stonehenge. More than seeing and learning about the stone
circles, I think we enjoyed being out in the fresh air with an expanse of green
as far as the eye could see in every direction.
What we were seeing today on our bus trip through the English
countryside was the landscape I had fallen in love with in all of those
Masterpiece Classic and BBC shows I’d obsessed over (research, ya’ know?).
After waiting on the bus for a good 15-20 minutes for our
missing couple, our bus continued on to Bath for our last stop of the day. Our tour guide spent a lot of our ride on the
phone trying to make sure another bus would pick the couple up to get them back
to London—and I totally agree with leaving them because we were chasing
daylight and still had Bath to visit.
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