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Yesterday I took my little brother and his girlfriend for a drive in the countryside. We went to the West Kennet Longbarrow and Silbury Hill, but it was flooded and freezing in the wind, then on to Avebury where we got soaked. We then drove across the Salisbury plains through the Valley of Pewsey and Netheravon and then to Stonehenge. Shame you can't anywhere near the stones any more, even if you pay it is roped off so you can't get any closer than 25 metres or so. When I visited in 84 you could go right up to the stones and touch them. We then drove through Wiltshire, past the Westbury White Horse and through Trowbridge before heading back. Dropped them to the train and they were flying home to Oz today.
West Kennet Longbarrow - a tomb from 3500BC. It is on the top of the hill, just to the right of the centre of the picture, this is the view from the road and when the creek is not flooded you can actually go up and enter it.
Silbury Hill - the largest man made mound in Europe, built 2500BC
Avebury, which is a stone ring and ditch around a village. Some of the stones are 2 times as heavy as the ones at Stonehenge
Stonehenge from the road
Hey, they need a mood 'wet', I was soaked yesterday. But cold is good too, the wind was freezing.
West Kennet Longbarrow - a tomb from 3500BC. It is on the top of the hill, just to the right of the centre of the picture, this is the view from the road and when the creek is not flooded you can actually go up and enter it.
Silbury Hill - the largest man made mound in Europe, built 2500BC
Avebury, which is a stone ring and ditch around a village. Some of the stones are 2 times as heavy as the ones at Stonehenge
Stonehenge from the road
Hey, they need a mood 'wet', I was soaked yesterday. But cold is good too, the wind was freezing.