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Stonehenge – Tuesday 21st May
The word ‘blanket’ is absolutely appropriate today. A blanket of cloud is hanging in the sky, making the roof of the world seem somewhat low. The good news is, it [...]
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Stonehenge – Friday 19th May
It is a little foolhardy to visit Stonehenge on a Friday. The early weekend crowds will be visiting the monument and the second-home weekenders will be queuing on the A303 [...]
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Stonehenge – Wednesday 15th May
This morning on Radio 4 I hear Lydia Corbett, a French painter in her 70s who was Picasso’s model for his series of portraits of the girl with the ponytail, [...]
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Stonehenge – Monday 13th May
Today we have our first journey around the brand new roundabout by Airman’s Corner. The highway folk are really moving along with things. It won’t be long before the memory [...]
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Thursday 9th May
Not many artists have taken on Stonehenge as a serious subject. The Eighteenth-Century antiquarian, William Stukeley, famously drew the stone circle from all angles in his survey of the ancient [...]
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Stonehenge – Wednesday 8th May
The field of rape opposite the new visitor centre site is now the brightest, sharpest, lemon yellow and the sweet sickly scent of the flowers stays with us all the [...]
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Stonehenge – Saturday 4th May
It’s Bank Holiday Weekend; of course Stonehenge is busy. It’s sunny and windy which means the car park is a tightly packed dust bowl and there’s some event happening here. [...]
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Stonehenge – Thursday 2nd May
I haven’t seen this much bare flesh at Stonehenge for a long time. Shorts and t-shirts are in abundance. The wind, however, is persistently chilly. Mark removes his long waterproof [...]
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Stonehenge – Tuesday 30th April
It has been a very strange year weather wise. The winter has felt relentless but today it feels positively spring like. On the journey in, yellow is the predominant colour [...]
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Stonehenge – Thursday 25th April
Today we pick up sandwiches from the baker in Amesbury on our way to Stonehenge and park up in the visitor centre car park to have lunch. The truck is [...]
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Stonehenge – Wednesday 24th April
The building works by the new visitor centre are full-on today. The roads are busy with diggers and dumpers; the shells of the new buildings seem covered in men with [...]
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Stonehenge – Monday 22nd April
We drive along the A303 today, the bit of the road that actually passes Stonehenge to remind ourselves of that view of the stone circle – the one you get [...]
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Stonehenge – Wednesday 17th April
Strung along the fence marking the border between the car park and the byway are yellow balloons. A party? There’s a small marquee – that’s probably a bit grand – [...]
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Stonehenge – Monday 15th April
It’s the afternoon and for some reason we think that by visiting Stonehenge later in the day we might avoid the excessive crowds. However, the car park is alarmingly full [...]
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Stonehenge – Thursday 11th April
Pulling into the car park we see our first ice-cream eater of the season. It isn’t exactly warm, but it’s nowhere near as cold as it has been. Ice-cream promises [...]
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Stonehenge – Monday 1st April
Truth be told, we wake up and are not overly keen to be Stonehenge tourists today. It’s grey, it’s cold, this season has been relentless and the temptation just to [...]
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Stonehenge – Friday 29th March
Good Friday and the holiday crowds are out – a considerable amount on the A303. By the new visitor centre, a smart A-frame now contains the word STONEHENGE printed in [...]
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Stonehenge – Tuesday 26th March
It seems wrong to bitch about the cold when the news is full of stories of communities in the UK under 14 foot snow drifts, days without power or any [...]
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Stonehenge – Wednesday 20th March
It’s a clear icy morning. We’re up early to greet the sun along with the pagans and druids and other tourists at the Stonehenge Vernal Equinox celebrations. It’s a fairly [...]
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Stonehenge – Monday 18th March
Sitting at one of the round picnic tables in the car park is a group of young people. I’d put them at late teens, slightly punky, slightly Goth, fabulously confident, [...]
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