Stonehenge

After what seemed like a very brief night's sleep, we were off on the next adventure: Stonehenge. We drove through what must have been the world's narrowest and curviest roads (nary a lane divider in sight) until we rounded a bend and saw it:

We got some audioguides and walked around and around it (unfortunately at a pretty good distance--after years of renting hammers and chisels for sightseers, they wised up and roped it off). It is much more compact than I had envisioned. The stones themselves are mammoth, of course, but it actually takes up less square footage than I had imagined. The most fun was seeing all the little details like the hip-bone-like joiners of each lintel (the cross pieces at the top), and then trying to imagine how these people put this together over 4,000 years ago, and most intriguing of all: WHY????