On the other hand, we visited Stonehenge, which I know many might say, "Why on earth did you title this post what you did? Wouldn't Stonehenge be the main attraction?" I love Stonehenge, and its history is fascinating, simply because no one really knows what it is and everyone tries to guess. I truly enjoyed being there in a good, staunch English rain in the middle of the countryside, with the wind gusting about, blowing everyone's umbrellas inside out (including mine -- we have some very entertaining pictures). It seemed to be the right mood, rather than sunshine and roses.....Stonehenge is so mysterious. However, it loses a little bit of something when it is roped off and you walk around it with a large crowd (not unlike a herd of cattle....slightly less moo-ing :0) on a guided path. It's difficult to get a picture without a LOT of other people being in the background.....or a sign that says, "Keep off the grass" in the foreground. And it tends to be smaller than your imagination would suppose. But I still enjoy the visit -- I would love to know how those stones made it from the Welsh countryside to the middle of England that many years ago. On a funny note, we saw a man who called himself a Druid priest (and his girlfriend) posing behind a protest sign that said, "Return Stonehenge to its natural environs." I am curious about a couple of things -- 1) does that mean you want to tote the 50-ton stones back to Wales where they came from?, 2) I'm just a little bit curious about his motives for saving nature, especially when his girlfriend was wearing a black leather coat, and he's puffing away on a cigarette while talking on a cellphone in the middle of the meadow with his Druidic garb on (he kind of looked like he was dressed up for a King Arthur movie). It doesn't seem very....Druid. Just wondering. We also saw a man who was using dowsing rods to harness the "magical energy" under the ground there at Stonehenge -- he did a "demonstration" for us, holding these little rods in his hands, and when they crossed each other, he said had found the magical energy. I don't know where people get some of their ideas. A little too strange for me.
I apologize for there not being any spaces between paragraphs -- sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't :0)
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I too am fascinated by the churches I have seen around the world. This one ranks right up there, but there are many, many more that would fit the same catagory
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