Stonehenge

Denne gang i London ville jeg prøve nye ting. Altså - det er ikke lykkedes helt, men en del nye ting er det blevet til! En af de nye ting var en bustur til Stonehenge. Det var faktisk en meget fin tur. 

Busturen frem og tilbage tog et par timer hver vej. Da vi kom frem, kunne man vælge bus eller at gå. Jeg valgte at gå og havnede hos de her får som gemte sig i skyggen! Der var utroligt meget fårelort, men det var en del af oplevelsen, tænker jeg.....

Faktisk nåede jeg til et punkt hvor jeg overvejede om jeg nogensinde ville finde de der sten!

This time in London I want to do new stuff. Well - I didn't totally succeed, but there are quite a few new things I did! One of the new things was a busride to Stonehenge. It was a very nice trip.

The busride there and back took about 2 hours each way. Once we got there, there was either a busride or a walk. I chose to walk and ended up with these sheep hiding in the shadow! There was so much sheep poop, but I guess that was part of the experience.....

I actually came to a point when I was wondering if I would ever find those stones!

Men pludselig var de der! Jeg må indrømme at jeg troede de var lidt større, men nu kommer man heller ikke helt tæt på. Det er umuligt at forestille sig hvordan de her sten er transporteret og sat op for så mange tusind år siden! Specielt overliggerne. Hvordan er de kommet derop?

But suddenly there they were! I have to admit that I imagined them being a bit bigger, but you don't get that close, really. It's impossible to imagine how these stones have been transported and put up so many thousand years ago! Especially the rocks on top. How did they get there?

Der er en fin lille udstilling ved deres visitor centre, som viser hvordan solen rammer ved solhverv, henholdsvis solopgang om vinteren og solnedgangen om sommeren. Den kommer lige imellem stenene (nok ikke de her sten, altså). Jeg kan bare forestille mig glæden om vinteren når man ENDELIG så solen kommer op her og vidste at nu blev dagene længere og lysere. 

Nå ja - og så købte jeg Stonehenge øreringe! Der er sikkert ingen ude i virkeligheden som kan regne ud hvad det er, men de er seje! Jeg tror jeg skal lave en post med de øreringe jeg har købt......

There is a very nice little exhibition at their visitor centre showing how the sun shows winter- and summer solstice, the sunrise in the winter and sunset at summer. It's coming right between the stones (not the one on the photo, though). I can just imagine how happy people were in the winter when they FINALLY saw the sun rise here and knew that the days would now become longer with more light!

Oh well - and I bought Stonehenge earrings! There is probably no-one in the real world who can guess what it is, but they are cool! I think I will have to make a separate post about the earrings I bought......