Going out to Stonehenge and Salisbury today was such a relief. I love London, I really do, but I find all the people and traffic all the time overwhelming. I always thought I wanted to live in a big city and I'm already starting to rethink things. I've never lived “downtown” before... except in Madison but Madison is only about 100,000 people so its not anywhere near as big as London or Chicago. It was really nice to leave the insane traffic and hundreds of thousands of people for a town set upon chalk. Salisbury would be a great place to spend lots of time. It doesn't have lots of shows or thousands of restaurants but its a good size town with great food, decent shopping and lovely green that isn't overcrowded. I'm probably romanticizing it, but I had one of the best meals so far in a great pub in the center of town.
Stonehenge was, of course, really interesting.. I find it impressive that a group of people thought something was important enough to bring stones that weighed scores of tons to the middle of open field. The meaning of Stonehenge was oddly not bothering me. Its really fun to have your own opportunity to wonder at the meaning of these stones who meant so much to someone sometimes (oh, lots of somes there). It was definitely
something.
