Wednesday, June 22, 2011

London, Stonehenge and Avebury

Big Ben

Westminster Abbey

The London Eye

From inside the London Eye

Cleopatra's Needle

Beautiful blue skies in London?  Yes, please.

White Tower

At the Tower of London


The hubs in Windsor.  (He hates the word "hubs", by the way)
Stonehenge

Henge at Avebury
Avebury

Silbury Hill

Avebury


Trafalgar Square at Midnight

Somerset House

My husband and I just spent a few days in London, before heading to Barcelona for a week.  It was great.  We met his mom and step dad in London, saw the sights, saw a couple of shows, stayed in a great hotel right on the Thames, practiced my night time photography, then spent a day driving in the English countryside to see Windsor Castle, Stonehenge and it's sister site at Avebury.  

I thought Avebury was really interesting.  It's a huge place...much, much larger in scale than Stonehenge, but not as complete.  It has a huge trench circle surrounding it and there is a very cute little village that was built partially inside the circle.  I loved the church there.  You can walk all along the trench and through the standing stones.  Silbury Hill is nearby and is a giant neolithic mound with no known purpose.  

The English countryside is gorgeous.  I'm pretty sure I would move there without hesitation.  

3 comments:

Jami said...

great job!!!

Kristin said...

Beautiful pictures! Man, I miss traveling so much!

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