Stonehenge

We were lucky enough to see Stonehenge before it was open and so there was no one about. We walked up to it in the way it should be approached, along the ancient Avenue, on a damp morning of drizzle and low cloud.
The stones stood there, silent and huge, as they have done for thousands of years. The only sounds we're the birds and, unfortunately, the far off drone of traffic. What would those people have thought, who laboured to build it, to see and hear the traffic in the distance? What was it they were hoping to achieve, to build such a magnificent thing? It sent shivers down my spine. Amazing.