That one time I went to Stonehenge

     Sorry that it has taken a while to post about this past Friday's excursion to Stonehenge and Salisbury.  I am still delaying much "need to do" homework for this, haha, so take it as a compliment.
We traveled by coach to get out to the countryside this time and managed to pass the hometown of Kate Middleton (Bucklebury) but here is an important note if you ever want to know if you should rent a car whilst you are staying in London: You would be barking mad to do it.
Not only were we fighting normal traffic, schools just let out for the summer, and the road that originally led to Stonehenge was closed, so we had to travel halfway across the shire just to park the bus . . . And then spend a grand total of 45 minutes there -___-.
As a result, I took an endless of amount of pictures from every angle possible, so enjoy the few below.

 The reason why this trip was so special to me is because it is a phenomena (although people try desperately to explain its existence) that we will never full understand.  And that's okie.
The other part of it, is that you never know if something like this will be destroyed in some kind of a natural force.  Even if I get the chance to return, will this ancient ruin remain?

The second part of the day was spent in Salisbury in Wiltshire England.  This city is home to the country's oldest Cathedral (erection dating to the 1200's)  . . .

and thusly, things like the country's oldest clock . . .

which still keeps time, amazingly.  Here are some more pictures of the inside . . .

And just a side note about the same town: it holds the house where they filmed much of the Emma Thompson version of Sense and Sensibility . . .

The knowledge I gleaned from these trips were overwhelming and I would not even be able to explain all of it in a few posts.  However, here is a interesting fact that I did not know:  The reason why lions are sculpted or carved at the ends of people's tombs or crypts are because the British believe it will get the deceased to heaven, faster.  They believe that when a cub is born, that it does not open its eyes for three days and therefore they associate it with the three days between Christ's death on the cross and his resurrection from the grave.
They are an admirable people of passion and faith.