Stonehenge

Stonehenge is a huge contradiction in terms, on one hand it is one of the most important historic monuments in England and a World Heritage site. On the other it is probably the most boring and expensive historic monument you will visit in the UK. Stonehenge is located between the A303 (London to Cornwall) and A344. You can see it while driving past on the A303, but to stop you need to turn onto the A344 to get to the car park for Stonehenge. You park on the opposite side of the A344 to Stonehenge and walk under a tunnel to get to the monument. If you're one of the people that doesn't like to pay, you can park on the road and risk you're life crossing the ...  Read the complete review

I have visited Stonehenge twice and they couldn't have been two more contrasting trips! The first time I visited was for a school trip, I was seven years old and I was very tiny. Because of this, the stones were enormous! I remember gazing up at the mystical stones in awe at their size and solidity and wondering how on earth they had got there...aliens? magic? Dragged from Wales on logs as we had just learnt in class? (I chose not to believe the latter as it was much less exciting). The second time I visited Stonehenge was two years ago, on a wet night in June at 2am. After being dropped off a mile up the road and arriving already soaked , I quickly forgot how cold ...  Read the complete review

Easter holiday is coming. It's a good time to travel around the UK. I would like to say something about Stonehenge. To my understanding Stonehenge is the number one tourist site you must see in this country. First time I saw it was on my way to Bath. It was an early morning. From a distance I already saw the stones standing there like silent people. It gave me a shock. It's so very mysterious. Second time I saw it when I on my way to Devon. I spent more than 3 hours to have a look of Stonehenge. It was an impressive trip. I admired it enormously. The tourist electronical guide provided by stonehenge was amazing with many languages to ...  Read the complete review

Every year on the summer solstice, an assortment of druids, pilgrims, pagans and other expectant travellers flock to Stonehenge in the hope of witnessing what is rumoured to be mystical sight. If the morning is clear, they will hope to see the midsummer sun rise between two of the great sarsen uprights, in line with the monolith of the heel stone at the far side of the circle. At this moment there will be much singing and rejoicing amongst the visitors, much wringing of hands amongst the custodians that all this frivolity doesn't damage their World Heritage Site, and much shuffling of feet by photographers as they try to make it appear that this alignment does actually ...  Read the complete review

***Introduction*** It was whilst trying to come up with something constructive to do during the school holidays that the thought of visiting Stonehenge suddenly popped into my head. I vaguely remember being a visitor for the first time way back when whilst I was still at school (that may well have been during the Stone Age). My hazy recollection of the ancient monument featured a graffiti-laden collection of stones and a shop full of school kids on the rob in nearby Avebury (not guilty, m’lud). Still, the rest of the family had never been so we decided to risk it even if most reviews I’d read hadn’t exactly been that complimentary and I still remembered being ...  Read the complete review