Day 5 London and Stonehenge England

Day 5

Oct 19/09

Trevor left after breakfast to pick up our Wicked Van. We decided that it would be cheaper if only one of us went. I stayed and carried all of our luggage down the narrow stairs to wait for Trevor's arrival. It was not an easy task since at least two pieces of luggage weigh over 40lbs and are not exactly the easiest thing to carry down stairs with little vision. Trevor arrived in our Tutti Fruitti van with fruit all over the sides and on the back the following message was written "Warning: the consumption of alcohol is the leading cause of inexplicable rug burns to the forehead and knees". I thought it was cute, Trevor was less impressed stating it wouldn't have been his first choice. We were off on another road trip. First destination, Greenwich to see the Prime Meridian. It was definitely not an easy task to get there because we learned that London's streets change names as you drive on them! But we made it and we stood on time 0. It wasn't anything overly exciting, but it was just neat to be on, to say we've seen the Prime Meridian. We also walked around the Royal observatory and then drove to our next destination; Stonehenge. On our way we stuggled to find somewhere to pull off quickly to eat and ended up spending the last bit of cash that I had exchanged. We made it to Stonehenge just as the sun was setting and that's when we learned that you can only go to the stones at set hours. Otherwise you had to be satisfied with Stonehenge from 50 m away (not that you can walk up to the stones anyways, because there is a rope around them and a trail you must follow. It was pretty neat to see Stonehenge, though not as exciting as I anticipated. We took a bunch of pictures and drove to Avebury, a village which is the site of the largest stone circle. Right before we got there we decided to stop into a grocery store where we learned that our mastercard was not necessarily going to work in small town grocery stores (because they don't take credit cards). We had to scramble to find some sort of cash (which we had thought we had run out of the day before). We somehow managed to find 6 pounds between the two of us and went off with our groceries. It was to be our mission to exchange money as soon as possible after this. For the night we parked in a parking lot of a pub in the village after asking permission, though not getting a clear Yes in response. Apparently to ask the proper people was to find another company that was in charge of the parking lot. But we took our chances and slept there the night.