Among the myriad of group trips and dinners we went on, the biggest one was probably the trip we took to Bath, hitting up Stonehenge on the way there, a trip which took pretty much the entire day.

It’s a really long drive away from London, but we took a bus all the way there. It’s really worth going, but I can’t say if it’s worth you driving all the way there and back, because I didn’t drive myself. A bunch of us fell asleep on the trip, so really, you should really find a convenient way to go that doesn’t involve you driving yourself in my opinion. Especially if you’re not used to driving on the left side of the road.

I had been to Stonehenge before, but they renovated the site a lot, for instance there was a lot more room to stand on the northern side, which was basically a little grassy area rather than a cramped ditch.

But as for Stonehenge itself, it’s in an area of England that’s very far away from everything, as such, besides the nearby highway and some towns a mile away, it’s really peaceful, quiet, and very windy. It’s surrounded by farm and grassland nearly everywhere, with trees nowhere to be seen.

Stonehenge is really impressive, though. These really are amazing to see, knowing that a hundred or so people somehow managed to bring all these stones that weigh as much as an elephant each to this point, but whatever purpose it served besides a calendar is a mystery.    

Oh yeah, the sun shines through it on the solstice, and if you go on any of those days, you’re likely to see some Druids standing there having a religious ceremony. As the audio guide says, when people discovered how old Stonehenge was, people immediately thought the oldest-living group in Britain, the Druids, had something to do with it. Later they discovered it couldn’t have been built by the Druids, as it was even older than their society, but by that time the Druids had already jumped to the conclusion with everyone else, and now they use Stonehenge as a religious site.  

You can’t go up to the stones, though, unfortunately. The audio guide explained that there’s space under the site, and the ground would shift and change if millions of people came and walked into Stonehenge every year.

But still, I couldn’t recommend going any more. Getting out of the cramped city and seeing forests and grassy fields for a change was a very good feeling, and it feels very peaceful up at Stonehenge.

Next, we continue onto Bath!

Location: London, United Kingdom