Day 5: A Visit to Stonehenge
The journey begins in London, England. We then proceed west through Southern England before crossing into Wales. The religion of England and Wales is Protestantism and the currency is the pound sterling.
We then take a boat west to enter Ireland. Ireland is a very independent nation where the main religion is Roman Catholicism. Their currency in Ireland is the EuroDollar. We travel through Ireland, including their capital city of Dublin.
We proceed north crossing into Northern Ireland, an important part of the United Kingdom where the primary religion is Protestantism and their currency is that of the United Kingdom which is the pound sterling.
We then travel by boat east to the Island of Great Britain (which is the countries of England, Wales and Scotland) back into England before proceeding north to Scotland. The religion in Scotland is Protestantism and their currency is the pound sterling.
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A short video clip to show you the land around Stonehenge.
We started our first day as a Trafalgar Tour by putting our luggage outside our rooms at 6:30 am and meeting for breakfast in the Hilton Hotel restaurant at 7 am. We would meet our guide at 7:45 am and get on our bus for our first journey.
Our first location was to visit Stonebenge, one of the world's most famous sites that was created in the 300s BCE. What I had no idea is that this famous site is only 3.5 hours west of London (see the first stop on the map above). What a site to see (see my extensive collection of photos below). We spent 2.25 hours here to walk around the site. There is also an extensive snack shop and of course a great gift shop. I ate 1/2 of an egg sandwich and some vinigar ships before getting back on our "coach" (as they call it in the rest of the world other than the U.S.) for our journey for a two-nite stay in Plymouth, a small city of only approx. 250,000 city, but the largest city in southwest England!
When we left Stonehenge, we took a 4 hour journey to our stay for two nights...to Plymouth. What a beautiful countryside through which we drove in England! Stocks for everything in the planned summer. We arrived in Plymouth at approx. 4:45 pm, sowe were in Plymouth before we took on to go to the old downtown for "pub grub" at Crown & Ancho at 4:45. I had "pig in a blanket" with mashed potatoes. For desert, I had a fantastic piece of chocolate cake with ice cream!
When we entered the city, we were told how this city had been bombed extensively by the Germans. They still have here their main chapel that was destroyed by a bomb, but has still not been touched. It remains as it is to remember what happened during World War II.
What a beautiful, extensive naval city that we will tour tomorrow.
