“No one has built a hence like that since then!... no one knows what the heck a henge is, but we’ve got one!”

As Eddie Izzard so valiantly put it, yes, England has Stonehenge. Last weekend BU packed us up onto a bus at 8.45 in the morning, drove us two hours south of here, and plopped us in the middle of a field and said “LOOK. LOOK AT OUR ROCKS.”

At least they're nice rocks?

Granted it was a gorgeous day and yes, those rocks are cool. When I told people I was going to see Stonehenge, I got a lot of “it’s just a bunch of rocks” (coughFalloncoughcough) but... it was just one of those things that I had to do. Yes, I’m aware about a gazillion people a day go look at Stonehenge and yes, more people than I can even fathom have been through those rocks. Nowadays you can’t even touch the rocks or go near them; you just kinda watch them from a distance with a rope in front of you. And you walk around them look at them from every angle, attempt to take witty photos—

I'm holding it in my palm. GET IT?

It took us far too long to plan this photo out.

—and then you get back on the bus and go someplace else. For us, it was Salisbury to go look at some churches and eat some delicious foods. But it was still a breath-taking experience. It was a beautiful, cloudless day, you could see the countryside for miles, and since it was so early, the place wasn’t that crowded and we enjoyed a nice wander around the perimeter. There were a lot of sheep and crows hanging around, which was weird. Since the only method of fencing they had to keep people from frolicking in the stones was a thin black rope, we assumed that they were there to attack whenever someone crossed and made a break for it.

But this is a structure that has lasted longer than half the world’s countries have been around. This structure was standing here, presumably in one piece at some point, since before most countries had names. Or national identities. They were just roaming pacts of people who were vaguely different from one another and fought on a basis of “you kind of don’t sound and/or look like me.”

This continent is a lot like high school.

The point is, this is a vital piece of history. I’m sure that someone’s entire life career was formed just because this monument is still standing and we still don’t know what the hell it’s for. I’ve seen everything from aliens built for rituals to it was a farmhouse, and each theory is just as crazy as the last. We were even joking that it was built the way it’s standing now, and it was never one concentric circle.

"HAHA SCREW YOU ALL!" - Stonehenge

 It’s also another piece of the ancient world I’ve always wanted to see. First Pompeii, then the Rosette Stone, now Stonehenge. That’s like... three things knocked of my non-existent ancient world bucket list. (I should really make one of those.) Salisbury was nice though, once we were done marveling at Stonehenge. It had a nice church, an original copy of the Magna Carta (all Americans should be excited about that!) and a little market where Saiya bought a hat. All in all, good day.

I'm smiling so giddily because this is right before I made a break for it.


Not really.