[Stones] Avebury x / Stonehenge ?

[Paul Wallis]

Wet Withens is so much better!
 As usual there were maybe a dozen, including yours truly with family and our good friend Don with his crew.
Good sunrise too!


 barry.teague at zoom.co.uk
> To: stones at stoneslist.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [Stones] Avebury x / Stonehenge ?
> Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:00:50 +0100
> 
> Gerald Ponting wrote:
> >> Anyone going to the solstice at Stonehenge, Friday night / Saturday
> >> morning? I must do this again some time - the only previous occasion
> >> was 1960 !
> 
> I've been a few times this century; I won't be going this year.
> Believe me, you wouldn't enjoy it.  Twenty thousand people within the henge 
> dropping their litter, with the space within the trilithons crammed full, 
> saddens all that care.
> 
> It's far better to go on one of the other open access times: winter solstice 
> dawn or, preferably for the lesser number of people, the equinox dawns.
> Of course, you don't get to see the sun rising over the Heelstone (viewed 
> from Stonehenge) at these times, but you don't get to see it at the summer 
> solstice, either, unless your prepared to spend an hour bargeing your way 
> through the throng.
> 
> Barry
>  
> 
> 
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