How NOT to visit Stonehenge

The midwinter sunset shines through the gap immediately to the right of the tall rock with the bump on the top.

We finally visited Stonehenge today! I’ve got some cool photos, but I think the most important thing I can share with you is valuable information on how NOT to visit Stonehenge … valuable information I wish I’d had before we began this journey.

We stayed at a groovy little campground nearby, called Stonehenge Touring Park. It’s a lovely place, with lots of gorgeous walking trails, but it comes with your first tip in how NOT to visit Stonehenge:

If you’re going to stay at this campsite, do NOT follow your GPS/SatNav’s instructions to turn up a narrow, grassy, one-way lane, no matter how strongly it insists. You will end up in someone’s secluded driveway and will have no way to turn around without the resident coming out and moving her car. Drive right past this lane and ignore your SatNav’s annoyed moans that she’s “Recalculating…”, and turn up Whatcombe Brow instead.

NO!!! :-O

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Then, when you punch the postal code in to your SatNav to drive to Stonehenge, do NOT use the postal code they offer on their website. Instead, type in “Stonehenge Visitors Center.” Otherwise, your GPS will cheerfully announce “You have arrived at your destination!” when you are on the highway whizzing past Stonehenge, up there on the hill, with no way to get to it.

NO!!! :-O

Yes 😀

Aside from that, I won’t bore you with any of the dozens of photos I took of the stones, as they aren’t any different from any of the others you can see online, aside from the fact that I took them.

Instead, I’ll show you some cool things that you can see there at the visitors center, which I didn’t know about until today.

What it looked like then ….

… and now.

This is a facial reconstruction of this skeleton. See the pic below for some amazing details they were able to ascertain about this man.

I got a kick out of this, from a wall of profound quotes about Stonehenge in the visitors center:

Before I go, here’s you a cat, instead of a dog, in honor of the Stonehenge Cat Hotel, which you may have noticed on the map, above:

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Lisa Bonnice is an award-winning, best-selling author. Her current passion-project is a series of metaphysical comedy novels. The first is entitled The Poppet Master (previously published as Be Careful What You Witch For!, now revamped and with a new ending). The Poppet Master is a modern-day fairy tale about Lola Garnett, a bored housewife and office drone who wakes up with unexpected psychic abilities, and no instruction manual, and Twink, the reluctant, sarcastic faery assigned to assist and educate her. The Poppet Master will be available in summer 2019. Its sequel is in the works.

Lisa is also writing The Maxwell Curse, a fictionalized version of a story she found in her own ancestral lineage about a witch trial, a generational curse, and massive mine explosion, all of which left ripples of destruction in their wake, devastating one family’s tree.

• Best seller—Fear of Our Father—#1 True Crime
• Two Excellence Awards—MSNBC.com
• eLit Silver Award—The Menhattan Project—Humor
• Includes foreword by Neale Donald Walsch—Shape Shifting
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