avebury – Open Diary

England #28.2 – Avebury, Part II and one more Barge visit

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May 18, 2018

OMG, I am... almost finished. So now I'm going to be experiencing the sad end of a wonderful trip all over again. I've got one more entry after this one, the journey home/wrap up one. And that is IT. Finally. (lol, I started this entry DAYS ago. I've been spoiled at work for weeks by…

England #28.1 – Avebury, Part One

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May 14, 2018

I'm making this into two entries because we went to Avebury twice- the first time was the Stonehenge/Barge/Avebury/Marlborough day (Tuesday May 9, 2017; yes I have officially lapped myself) when we didn't stay all that long as it was getting late and everything was closed. Including somewhere to ...

England 22- hiking at Fyfield Down on the Last Day

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December 22, 2013

Or, as we kept saying, the, "sniff..sniff...last day...WAAAHHHH!!!!" How is it possible for time to go so fast?? None of us was ready for it to be The Last Day. But, sadly, there The Last Day was, before we knew it. We made the most of our Last Day, though. We took a long hike to Fyfield…

England 20- a picturey entry with more pictures of picturesque Avebury

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December 7, 2013

Have I said how much I loved Avebury? I really loved Avebury. I could live here. Amongst the stones. And sheep. This sheep had an itch. Impressive trees: West Kennet Avenue is a long stretch of stones -- originally around 100 pairs of parallel stones. And lots of sheep: And.... People Pictures! K...

England 19; hanging around lovely Avebury

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December 2, 2013

We hung around Avebury just about every day that we were in Wiltshire, so I'm giving Avebury its own entry. It's both a town and the site of a Neolithic henge monument. It's the largest stone circle in Europe. On the First Trip in 2010, Kim and I went to Stonehenge and to Avebury, and although St...