We stopped at the picturesque Buckfast Abbey which celebrates its 1000th
anniversary this year.
We had a petrol stop and our driver Trevor filled up the coach with
fuel. Five hundred and thirty pounds later…
Now to Stonehenge. A lot of people visit and it is well set up. The
coaches used to just drive up and deposit their cargo right next to it. Now
there is a visitors’ centre and you catch a shuttle bus to the henge. You can
walk but it’s about 30 minutes (two kilometres). It was good but it would have been more
impressive if you could have gotten closer. It is impressive that they are still
a couple of lintels. We both prefer the
Ring of Bogdar on the Orkneys.
They now have a reconstructed village and showed how to move the blocks.
Mileage for the trip was 8,000 kilometres which was quite surprising
but I guess that’s a little under 400 kilometres per day. We said our hurried farewells and took a cab to King's Cross where we will stay the next two nights.
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