On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:49:24AM +0000, Dave Howorth wrote: > Richard Lyons wrote: > >On Tuesday 13 January 2004 16:29, Jim Higson wrote: > >>On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 22:54:13 -0800, Nano Nano > >><40101.nospam@comcast.net> wrote: > >>Stonehenge sucks! > >>Seriously, don't visit it. You get to walk around a rope 10 meters or > >>so from the stones, which have mostly fallen doen anyway. I spent > >>most of my visit playing Sonic2 on a RedHat laptop. > >>And then there's the people (mostly American) standing around filming > >>the stones with their camcorder - huh? > > > >Really, the main problem is that it is far too distant from London, > > That's true to a point ... ...but it's not that much further from London than Stratford-upon-Avon is. It's just that (unless you're a pseudodruid) there's maybe 10 minutes worth of interest in it. A lot of big stones in a rather bleak field miles from anywhere, and there's practically no public transport. So if you're a foreign tourist without your own car you either pay a fortune to a happy taxi driver, or get bored for four hours waiting for a bus back to civilisation. Better to spend the money on a decent book about the place. > BTW, the general approach is pretty much what's been done in the Lake > District. There's one road that's been improved and leads to the place > that tourists are supposed to go Ah yes, the "Windermere motorway"... Funny thing is, Windermere town is one of the most boring places in the Lake District. > (the average distance a tourist moves > from their car is 300 yds or some such number). Just far enough to get to a public toilet... > Then there are lots of > lanes and paths where nobody but locals and oddball tourists go :) ...and they all end up on top of Scafell Pike. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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