01/19/2015

Stonehenge 

Today is the worst day of my whole trip. My camera is broken =/

I wanted to visit the Science Museum once more to see what I didn’t manage to see last time, but I couldn’t wake up again from the nap I took after I had the included hotel breakfast this morning.

This is not a fancy hotel, but if I even get to choose a hotel again, having Wi-Fi would be a much higher priority than having free breakfast, especially when the breakfast is not that good.

Apparently, when I read the email again at the last minute to see if I am missing anything, I found out that I have to call the tour agency to have a confirmation of my booking 24 hours in advance. As I didn’t have internet in my hotel, and I had to book this tour from asking my brother to do it over the phone, I couldn’t have noticed this.

When the time I realized that, I was already in the train station on the way to the coach station (being late because I took the sort of wrong direction train… same direction but different destination). I was out of time to use my phone apps to call, so I made an impulsive and “costly” (=p) decision… to make the call using my actual cell, $.2 per minute and I used 2 minutes.

At the end, with a bit of tiring  running and sprinting, I made it to the station 7 minutes late and when I got on the coach, I realized the travel agent had called me once regarding this. Oh well, I made it I guess. Then I spent of my journey on the bus catching breath lol.

The time to travel from London’s city center to Stonehenge is around two hours, mostly because of traffic.

London doesn’t have a freeway directly connected to the freeway in the outskirts, so we have to pass through the urban area with traffic and traffic circles with a lot of stoplights, which made me really dizzy.

Anyway, we arrived Stonehenge at around 3pm and the Sun was already beginning to set. As a way to preserve the most ancient environment of this ancient wonder, the British government decided to prohibit any human infrastructure to be built near it. As a result, the newly built tourist center was 6 minutes away from the actual Stonehenge by shuttle bus.

Audio guide is free, and it is very informational. As of today, still, no one has any clues of what this Stonehenge is all about. Some theories proposed that this might be an astronomical clock, but the alignment of the stones doesn’t really match. Some associate the Stonehenge with extraterrestrial activities. Burial sites were found near the Stonehenge, but the amount of burials were so few that it could not have been a cemetery.

Like the human faces in the Easter Island, stones were transported here from far away, and some suggested that the stones were transported here by the river, but for the technology that the ancient people used to build it, there are many theories, but none were scientifically proven.

Well, stupid story of how I broke my camera…

I was helping a couple taking a picture, but they were using an iPhone 5.

As you know, the snapshot button was not physical but on screen.

I had my gloves on because it was freezingly cold, so I took them off, and I stupidly slipped my cameras off my wrist as well… Camera broken…

Karma for helping that couple… lol