in the background of the picture above you can see the Abbey which has some interesting relief on the front. basically it's angels climbing up and down ladders, referring to a dream that the priest had that told him to erect the church in the first place.

On the way back to Heathrow we stopped at a couple of places on the way, Avebury, Stonehenge, and Salisbury. Salisbury was interesting for their chapel as well, which apparently has the highest church tower in england and was very beautiful, but also had one of only 4 existing copies of the Magna Carta. Avebury is one of the places with stone circles, like stonehenge, but earlier and smaller stones. It also had larger and more circles that you could wander in and out of. But it was really very windy, and we messed up with the parking machine and were worried about getting a ticket, so we kind of rushed a bit. But the stones there look like this:

Which is compared to stonehenge where the stones look like this:

I thought that Stonehenge would be more touristy than actually interesting, but it was actually extremely satisfying (despite the brutal wind that would not let us be). It intrigued me because it took a lot for it to be built and is in relatively good condition for being 4000 years old. Some interesting facts about Stonehenge: The largest stone weighs approximately as much as 7 elephants. They used woodworking techniques to construct it and even rounded the stones slightly to make the circle properly. Some of the stones came from miles and miles away, but are so heavy that it would have been extremely difficult to transport them here over both land and sea. The rocks are home to over 40 different types of lichens.

Nifty, eh?

After that it was home again home again jiggity jig.

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