Friday, March 7, 2014

Restrooms:  who knew I would find restrooms so fascinating. They are cooled "toilets" which seems so crude or the Loo.  They seem to have a shortage of water here. Flushing  is not so smooth as back home. And imagine our surprise when we went to a Loo in the park and they wanted 50 pence to enter. So there we were 8 women dancing around (as it had been quite some time since our last stop) trying to figure out if we had 50 pence each and what the heck it would look like. The tea room had a very interesting toilet. All seems usual until you go to the back. The ceiling got lower and lower  Maria said it was like going down the rabbit In Alice In Wonderland. She was right so of course I had to use that one.  My head almost touched the celling once I got inside.

Took a bus out to Avebury and Stonehenge. When we got to Avebury I stepped off the bus closed my eyes and took a deep breathe. I would smell the trees around me and hear the crows in the trees. Honestly my thoughts were of  Goodsoil. The smell and sounds were the same. Odd half the world away it seems so familiar.  I was amazed at the town houses with thatched roofs. These roofs made of twigs  and straw and will last 80 or 90 years. Once it is time to change them only the top few inches are replaced. The bottom stays original making it as old as the house. The houses are not built of wood only of brick and stone this is why they last hundreds of years. The homes we saw were over 400 years old.  Imagine all lives and changes that those walls have seen.  I stood in near one if these old houses just imagining the stories that could be told.

We continued to the stone circle in Avebury. Unlike Stonehenge you can still walk amongst the stones and touch them, feel them, truly connect with them.  We stood inside the circle and all joined hands and felt the ancient energy flow from each of our hands. Receiving in the left hand and giving from the  right.

Then off to Stonehenge.
We weren't  allowed near the stones as the ground has become unstable with 1,000,000 visitors a year. And unfortunately visitors have defaced the stones or taken pieces. I don't understand why anyone would want to deface such a treasure but can understand wanting to take a piece of this ancient stone home with you.  However even having to keep a distance you can feel the energy.  It is an amazing place. However I was more impacted by the stone circle in Avebury than Stonehenge only because it is not yet commercialized. It still have the feel it would have had centuries ago.

Today was a wonderful day. Tomorrow we leave London with wonderful memories to keep close until I return.


1 comment:

  1. Hahaha! omg, to picture you women all dancing around trying to figure out what the heck a "pence" looks like! That is hilarious.

    The Avery stone circle sounds amazing! I've never heard of it! How was Billy Elliot???

    Safe travels to Ireland my seeester!

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