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Southampton 2023 - A walk back in time

 

When we last went down to Southampton, we visited Longleat Safari Park and, on the way back, we drove past Stonehenge. I said this was somewhere I wanted to visit, therefore we made sure to factor it in this time. We booked online for a fairly early time to visit, and made our way on the hour or so’s journey there. A tip for anyone who visits places like this often, we decided to join the National Trust as you can get entry for free with your National Trust membership despite it being an English Heritage site, which saves you over £40 (as long as you make your membership worth the money over the rest of the year). Once we arrived and queued to get in, we opted to go straight into the exhibition to find out more about the stones and their history, before going up to the stones themselves. There is an option of a bus to take you up Stonehenge, but we decided to walk. The walk is about a 4km round trip, but does allow you to see some of the Salisbury countryside. When we were walking back, we noticed that a lot of visitors were being directed to walk on a slightly different route than us. We walked along the side of the road that the buses drive along, which has a marked out pedestrian path, however there were lots of people walking through the fields next to the road, including one heavily populated by cows. We’re not sure which the correct route is, but we definitely preferred ours as it was more direct and didn’t involve getting near anyone posing to take selfies with cows!


The stones themselves don’t really seem much to look at. But knowing the story and the history behind them makes It into that special attraction that you have to tick off your bucket list. It was very busy with tourists, however they have the stones themselves marked off well so you can still get a good view and take plenty of photos. I’m not sure if it is somewhere I will rush back to, but it’s worth a trip if you’ve never been before.  

In the evening, we had a catch up with one of Nicole’s friends, where we played some board games and had a takeaway from Kutis, which is an Indian restaurant that Nicole used to go when she was younger. From here, we each had a curry with rice, and also shared some naan. Nicole had the butter vegetable curry and I had a chicken korma. Both tasted delicious, and the meal definitely didn’t disappoint Nicole who had fond memories of this restaurant.

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