29 May 2010 Stonehenge

For my 40th birthday coming up in a few days I decided that I wanted to go see something really old. A 5000 year old prehistoric stone circle seemed like it should do the trick.

However, there were some obstacles to today’s jaunt up to Salisbury and then over to Stonehenge. First, our train was canceled. Then it rained. Then it rained harder. Then, just as we got to the stones the wind picked up. Still, despite the lousy conditions–or maybe because of them–the stones were magnificent. Mysterious, mottled, older than history. The cheesy recorded audio guide playing on the speakers on the bus from Salisbury said: “Stonehenge represents the beginning of architecture.” There was purpose and intent and engineering and craft and no one knows today what it was all really for.

I just love that.

I’ve also had a single cheesy song running through my head all day. Can you guess what it was?