Rome in London: Summer Solstice at Stonehenge

-in the field outside stonehenge where we camped and where rome took his first few steps alone!!

So much has happened since our last post, I don't know where to begin, so I'll start with this past week and show some pics from our latest adventure to Stonehenge.

Once a year, on the eve of the Summer Solstice, Stonehenge is opened to the public to go inside and experience the area from 8:30 p.m to 8:30 am (usually there is a rope that prevents people from getting too close and so the stones can only be seen from a distance). There were hippies and druids, ravers and old-time soul searchers, drum circles and drunkards, country bumpkins and a bunch of other crazy people (like us) who headed out & camped overnight to see the sun rise inside the stones at 4:00 am, experiencing what it was possibly created for.

Although it is still a mystery how they built or used this sacred temple, it was constructed over 3,000 years ago and the massive stones were aligned so that the sun rose above the heel stone and shone through the center of the circle on the sunrise of the first day of summer-the solstice. It was a very interesting experience and, although it was cloudy that morning, the sun did poke through for a short moment and made it worth the effort and sacrifice (just our sleep for one night-not a lamb or our first born like they probably used to do). These pics tell the story better than I can, so here they are.....