Stone circles and round-a-bouts...

This afternoon Steve and I drove to Wiltshire, to visit his globe-trotting friend from his university days.
She was in England for the weekend, to attend a wedding, and it had been some years since they had seen each other.

We arrived in Wiltshire, some four, (arr!) hours after we set off. Enroute, we saw a chalk horse in a field.

Together, we all went to Avebury, (dated around 5,000 years ago!!), which is similar to Stonehenge, but much bigger. It is also not as well known, so you can actually touch the enormous stones. Some of them are 6 metres long and weigh 20 tonnes- imagine them being rolled to their current positions thousands of years ago! Sheep too, are able to graze amongst the great stones.

Sheeps favourite scratching post

We then had dinner at an authentic English pub, (my first!), and then drove the four hours home together, arriving around 1am!