Ancient Stones

I took Mum to Stonehenge today: Her first visit in over 40 years.

Reading some of the history of the site as a tourist attraction, on her last visit she would have walked among the stones on gravel. The car park  was in the next field (where I spent the whole visit lying on a sun lounger feeling very ill), and I suspect most visitors were British.

In 1978, the centre of the monument was relaid with grass and the tourists diverted around the outside  the circle of stones to protect it for future generations.  Fast forward to 2013, and the car park and visitor facilities have relocated 1.5 miles away and today the site is being returned to it's 3000BC state - provided you ignore the steady  flow of shuttle buses transporting the now mainly non-British visitors around the site, and the traffic along the adjacent A303, which still awaits its planned tunnel.

Through all these changes, as with the 5millenium before, the stones still stand in their splendid mystery, and Mum had a good day out!