Milford Hall Classic Hotel

Stonehenge...what can I say about actually seeing it in person. Well first the actual tip and then I'll just ramble a bit if you don't mind. TIP: 1. Pay the money to go and see it up close (as close as you can get without being arrested). It seems lots of people climbed the fence and take pics over top of it as they don't want to spend the money on a ticket...whatever...you're supporting a heritage - pay the money - don't be so cheap. 2. We went fairly early in the morning and the tour buses had not shown up yet! :-) Ok, now for the rambling... Well first of all, when it came into view while driving in the car, a scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail popped into my head and I looked at my husband and said "It's only a model!" Because thats how it felt. I have no idea why. The whole experience was a little sureal. After seeing photo's of it, television shows about it and being told about it, when finally I got there it was a little...weird. It was like...ok...there it is...ok...so... It wasn't a let down...it was just...well you're standing there looking at it...the wind is whipping the skin from your bones...and what you really want to do is crawl under the rope fence or whatever it was...and go right up and touch the stones. But of course you can't as the "henge guards" are everywhere so its not as if you're going to make a break for it. That and you'd end up in a thousand other tourists photographs as they're all standing around doing the same thing you're doing...having their picture taken with all of their hair blown to one side of their head. It was comb over city! I don't regret it by any means. It was a really cool experience, but moreso in retrospect. I left with a very unreal feeling about it. Perhaps its because you don't get to visit something that was built in 3100 BC very often.