So Don and I had arranged to go to Europe and due to the lovely Fund for Teachers grant that I was awarded we decided to really do it. It was to be an 8 week trip, with 2 wks in Germany for the Fellowship part. We managed to get the best airfare and nonstop flight by flying into Heathrow and that was how we decided we would get to go to Stonehenge. We arranged to pickup the Peugeot at the airport and we were off, driving, of course, on the opposite side of the road. We had had some experience with this a few yrs back in St Thomas, where we constantly would say to each other, keep to the left, Mon.. so we could remember.
After a 10 hour flight, which was really wonderful due to British Air having an abundance of recent and classic movies, HBO shows, games, music etc.. the time really went quickly. We were rather exhausted and then Don drove for 2 hours west of London where we were staying for 2 nites at the Thatched Cottage in Lacock... Darling.. just darling... and came with a huge English breakfast.
So of course on our first day we do Stonehenge AND the Salisbury Cathedral. No time like the present to try to cram it all in. Amazing tour of the spire after seeing the cathedral itself which was begun in 1220. They pride themselves on the fact that theirs did not take hundreds of years to complete ( and therefore it is actually all of the same architechtural style.. altho the spire was the piece that came later.) Our intro to the cathedrals ( which of course as we were walking toward it and I told Don where we were going, before we could actually see it... " I am not much for churches" and I kind of looked at him and just said, Um we are in Europe, there will be lots of cathedrals.. and yes we did see and go into many cathedrals during the next 8 weeks.
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