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This morning I walked from my home in Salisbury to Stonehenge for the winter solstice. I’ll write about it when I’ve caught up on some sleep but in the meantime. Here are some photos from the walk up the Avon Valley towards the Stones. Photos from the Henge itself will hopefully follow tomorrow. First photo . . . → Read More: Winter Solstice at Stonehenge – part 1 
I recently read a book called ‘Stonehenge’ by Rosemary Hill. It’s a wonderful book. It is about how we have responded to Stonehenge over the last 1000 years or so. One day I’ll get around to doing a proper review, but in the meantime I thought I’d do a list of my favourite ‘learnings’ from . . . → Read More: Things I learnt from Rosemary Hill’s ‘Stonehenge’ Another roundup of stuff on Salisbury and Stonehenge things I’ve found on the internet. The Blue Peter presenter Helen Skelton climbed right to the top of the Cathedral spire to change the lightbulbs. The climb is detailed on the BBC website. There is a nice detail at the end of the BBC item. The man . . . → Read More: Salisbury and Stonehenge news from the net I thought it might be worth occasionally collecting together some of my Twitter updates and re-publishing them here. Some of the stuff might be interesting to readers of this website. I tweet as salisbury_matt, often about local things. Since this is the first time I’ve copied the tweets onto the website, I’m going to . . . → Read More: Twitter updates There have been a series of posters at the railway stations which have been a bit odd1, but I quite like this one, advertising day-trips to Stonehenge. If you came to this page looking for how to get to Stonehenge then it might be worth looking at my page on getting from Salisbury to . . . → Read More: Stonehenge – How did they get there? Stonehenge has been included on a list of 19 World Heritage sites which are now visible in Google’s ‘street view’. (1) The ‘Street View’ functionality is an option within Google Maps. Typically Google have sent cars equipped with cameras to photograph the roads of various cities. In the case of Stonehenge, they used a tricycle . . . → Read More: Stonehenge on Google Street View |
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