Current idea Of the stone henge experience. You turn up and pay your £15 a head first, this is VERY important. They then give you the choice of going to the stones or the Experience first, you choose the stones. You are then hearded into a series of wheeled lunchboxes, that are somehow reminiscent of the train thing from In the night garden. This is then towed by an authentic period vehicle to the stones (Landrover defender). There you wonder round the Stones in a ritual motion, clockwise or anticlockwise, and ponder the great thoughts, did it rain this much in the neolithic and bronze age? Then its back in the lunchbox to view the exhibit, this consists of randon detritus of neolithic life, and a selction of flints that would make Phil Harding from time team pee his shorts in excitment. You look at the period hut that english heritage have built (possibly with soggy re-enactors) and ponder how its not much better than the lego brick house you bought on the new estate from the quality housing company. On the way home you see a better built one done by the Juniors at the local primary school. Finally you leave through the obligatory gift shop, where you end up walking out with genuine tat, a stonehenge fridge magnet, a box of stonehenge toffee for gran, and a cuddly cave man for the kids, oh, and the obligatory plastic dinosaur as your 5 year old wouldnt shut up till he had one. And yet again the experience is that of utter bewilderment as you go and get stuck in the carpark which is the A303, why did I pay £15 a head for this?
Posted on: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 07:58:45 +0000
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