England
England
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| This was our first driving trip around England. The weather had been great the week before Christmas, but the day before we left it turned very cold. Parts of Eastern England had several inches of snow. We had temperatures around -4 C. We had a lot of fun driving around the English countryside and just playing by ear. If we saw something interesting, we would stop and go exploring. | |||
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| Stonehenge: We left Windsor about 7:30 am and arrived at 8:30 am. There were only a couple of other cars, no traffic at all. Stonehenge opens at 9:30, so we had to wait. It was very cold there, -1 C. You can see Stonehenge from the road, so we were able to get some photos before it opened with no people in the pictures. We joined the English Heritage allowing us entry for free to this and aver 400 hundred sites around Britain. There are also many sheep in the pastures next to the monument. Later we heard on the radio to avoid the highway between Solstice Park and Stonehenge due to high volumes of traffic. We were lucky we got there early. | |||
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| Salisbury: These are photos of the beautiful giant cathedral in the medieval part of the town. There were other historical buildings to see, but they were closed for the winter. The town is very nice and probably a good place to go in the summer as there are may places to shop or just wonder around. | |||
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| Wiltshire White Horse Trail: The English countryside has many different white horses on the hillsides. There are at least 24 of these horses, which are actually chalk drawings. Most of these are about 300 years old with exception to the one in Uffington which is around 3000 years old. We actually tried to find the Uffington horse on this trip, but ran out of time and daylight. This is the White Horse of Hackpen. | |||
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| Westbury White Horse: This is the white horse of Westbury. | |||
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| The Roman Baths of Bath: It was very interesting walking through the bath house which was built close to 2000 years ago. These photos show the large main bath with the Roman statues. The pools are filled by a natural hot spring. There were many different rooms with cold and hot water. The Romans even built furnaces to heat the water to even higher temperatures in certain pools. After spending some time here, we kept thinking were were in Rome, not England. | |||
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| The Bath Cathedral: In the center of town is the large Bath cathedral. It is very beautiful. The photos show the exterior and 1 photo of the interior ceiling. | |||
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| The Town of Bath: This is a photo of the river and part of the town of Bath. | |||
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| Chippenham: This was a church we were told was very nice to drop by and see. Unfortunately it was not open while we were there. | |||
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| Calne: We saw this church while driving by on the way to our next stop. It was very cute, but was not open, so we could not go inside. | |||
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| Avebury: These are the largest stone circles in England. We walked around the stones and the small village which takes several hours to see everything. One photo shows an old crop circle in the field next to the stone circles. | |||
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