Avebury

Well, this will hopefully be a very fast update. Mom and dad arrived a week ago, met me here in Bath, and we all rented a car from the Bristol airport. A very tense ride ensued as dad practiced staying left and using roundabouts. At any rate, we made it to Avebury unscathed just after sunset. We stayed at an excellent B&B right in the middle of the stone circle there. The rooms were gorgeous and a huge breakfast was included. The next day we spent wandering around the region of the circle. We headed south first, past ancient Silbury hill and visited Longbarrow, an ancient burial site. Once again off-season worked in our favor. Then we followed the avenue of stones on the female side of the circle back to Avebury and explored englands largest stone circle before walking across several hills on a country lane to the quarry where the stones came from. It seems that even most of the stones in Stonehenge came from this area. Avebury was definitey worth the day visit. We drove back to the Bristol airport then and caught our plane to Dublin! I'll try to get a bit of the Ireland trip in here before I leave.....