My Visit To Stonehenge - World Famous Landmark In England / Speed Train & Bus Ride To Salisbury UK
Stonehenge June 2025
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Today's adventure begins as a recording
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of this TGIF Friday
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227
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2025. Heading over to King's Cross.
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Just checked out of my hotel
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which is known as the Kings Cross in.
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stayed over there and check it out. And
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going outside the greater London area to
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a place I've wanted to go for a long
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time,
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Stonehenge.
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Need coffee first. Welcome everyone.
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Adam the Woo here. Going to be utilizing
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the train system today to get over to
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Stonehenge. And then after that going to
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head elsewhere, not coming back over to
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the London area. Going to do other
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England things. I'm inviting you to join
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me.
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Shall you Starbucks over here. It's kind
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of interesting, too, which is I've never
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really seen this except in the UK. You
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have to wait for certain trains. Not the
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train I'm taking, but for certain
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trains, you have to wait up here until
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they tell you
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what section of the track you have to go
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over to,
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what area to to run to. So, everyone
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waits here. you don't get like a heads
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up. So, everyone waits here and as soon
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as they are alerted then they just dart
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over to their area.
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what's there now is actually
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10:15 well 10:17 right now
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currently
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That is called a Water Bowser.
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It's a water Bowser. Whatever that is.
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Water Bowser.
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Taking off.
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53 lbs for the train ride. Got my uh
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ticket here. One way
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park in the station
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about an hour and a half to Salsbury.
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Then from there
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junction maintenance stop over George
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over great and ssbury expect
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1135sbury
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safety information is displayed all
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in anyone please going
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after
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610
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any help or anything.
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but before that we're going to pick up
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etc.
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I downloaded a speedometer app shows how
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fast I'm going. 91 milesPH.
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This thing has a book in it.
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Just slowed down. I'm going slow down.
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Only 90.
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Let's
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All right, arrived about an hour and 20
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minutes.
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Just across just across from the station
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is a place that you can pay a few
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pounds, store your luggage. Just want to
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put my bags over in here called the
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Hetty Bells Pub.
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I drop my bag off, bags off, I should
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say.
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A couple different modes of
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transportation to get over to Stonehenge
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from here. You got the buses, got taxis.
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Think it's about a half hour from here.
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All right, I took a taxi over about 15
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20 minute ride. Arrive now at the
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visitor center
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and go inside, get some information, and
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then head over to the stones. This
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marker was set up for a
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sergeant.
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and a captain who while flying
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they crashed right here back in 1912.
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Captain Lraine and Staff Sergeant
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Wilson.
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Small stones you see in a large circle
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around you. There are 56 of them. They
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are occupying what we call the Aubrey
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Hall. We're not actually sure that's the
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same. Through the centuries and the
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millennia, some stones were added. Some
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stones were moved around. This stone you
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see lying flat right here in front of
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you, that is the alter stone. That's the
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stone that geological testing just last
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year around June and July determined
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came from Scotland 400 miles away.
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That's the furthest we know of any stone
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having been transported on. It's placed
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there to align with the winter solstice
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sunset. It's more elaborate than what
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they did for the summer solstice because
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the winter solstice was more important
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to them. That's when the days would
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start getting longer. They could start
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planting their crops and growing the
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central trilog. So we no longer get that
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great view of the winter solstice sunset
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today. This last still standing stone of
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the central trilabon is the tallest
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stone you'll see when you go out to the
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monument today. You'll notice the bump
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on top that's not there by accident.
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That corresponds with the hole in the
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fallen lintil stone here. And that's
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because they didn't just rely upon
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gravity to keep the lintil stones in
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place on top. They actually sculpted
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them to fit together using a tongue and
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groove system similar to Legos if you
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will. And is a prehistoric temple. The
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stones are aligned with the movements
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of the sun. Stonehenge is also a
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masterpiece of a masterpiece of
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engineering built by sophisticated
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people. And Stonehenge is also part of a
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complex prehistoric landscape truly
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knows the reasoning. The purpose of
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Stonehenge is lost to us. There will
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always be a debate about its meaning.
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a timeline starting back in 3000 BC
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with the Aubry hole pillars here,
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the heel stone here, and then fast
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forward a little bit to
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2500
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before Christ.
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And you have blue stones here, the
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Sarsson circle, the north barrerow, the
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heel stone, something called the
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slaughter stone right there, and then
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you're getting into 2200 BC. And then
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today, the ruin temple.
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Here's an example of one of the stones
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here. I believe this is a recreation
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just like the rest of this little
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village out here. However, as the guide
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inside was explaining, almost like a
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Lego set, this was the connecting top
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point. So, part towards the ground, the
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connecting
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point there. He compared it to like a
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the way a Lego set up.
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The people who built Stonehenge probably
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lived in houses
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similar to these.
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Back in 1986, this was designated part
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of a world heritage site. This is the
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Stonehenge landscape.
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Currently standing right there where it
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says you are here. Going to take a bus
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up there at number five which is
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Stonehenge. But you can see there's all
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these other areas as well.
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Gateway your journey across an
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incredible landscape.
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Constant buses to and from to and fro.
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All right, there it is
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in all its glory. Stonehenge right here
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off the landscape here in the middle of
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this massive field
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and you can't get right up to the rocks.
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Yeah, little stansions here. As close as
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you can get is right here.
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It is wild to be standing here because
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I've always known about this. Never
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thought I would see it with my own eyes.
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I've seen so many reproductions, spoofs,
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versions of this in other areas.
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Car hinge. I've been to Carhen. I've
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been to Foam Henge,
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but never the real Stonehenge.
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Seen videos on it, photos,
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documentaries.
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Of course, Clark Griswald knocked over
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Stonehenge in European Vacation Chvy
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Chase. That was a set that they built.
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That was not the real Stonehenge, but
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looked a lot like it.
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Backed his car up into one of the rocks,
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toppled it all over like dominoes.
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For some reason, I thought I was going
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to be able to get a little closer than
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this, but this is as close as you can
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get.
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Makes sense, though. I'm sure at one
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point you probably could get a little
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closer. But nowadays, there's so many
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people coming out here. The more you
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touch the rock, the more it would
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decompose.
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Could be issues. So,
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This is one of those unusual mysteries.
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No one really knows. And imagine how
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difficult it would have been to get
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these to this point to build this out
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here in the middle of nowhere.
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Everybody has their theories, but no one
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really knows. Some say by water, some
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say by land.
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And obviously they have to be buried
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farther down into the ground to keep
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them standing. They're not just they're
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not just sitting standing on the ground
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there. All right. Here's an itemized
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list of what each of them are called.
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Very windy out here.
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Trilithon
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trilon there ton
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the blue stones sarsson horseshoe the
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sarsson circle and the solstice axis
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runs right down the middle almost
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exactly like this. So you're kind of
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right on the solstice axis.
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There's a walkway that goes all the way
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around.
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Of course, that's way back here, but you
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can continue just walking around,
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getting any photos and videos you so
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choose.
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really fascinating.
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I think even more than that also is just
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being here
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after knowing this exists for my whole
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life and never being here before and now
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I'm standing here.
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I think in a way that is even more
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exciting than just seeing the rocks
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here.
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One of the most famous landmarks in the
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world.
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Like everyone has heard of or knows of
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If you showed a picture of this to
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anyone,
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they would have a general idea of what
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it is and say, "Oh, it's Stonehenge."
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You got this arrow here saying the
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midsummer sun sunrise that direction.
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Then you follow the arrow. Should they
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be towards the mid winter?
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sunset which is over in this direction.
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It's also interesting the loop that you
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do around. You get over to this section,
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you are really pretty far away from the
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stones where if you're on that side,
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you're a little closer. The closest
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point would be right over there. And I'm
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also noticing there's this moat that
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goes around like a 3/4 moat. Well, this
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completely goes around and there's like
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more ground there and then the moat
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begins again or at least a ditch
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for a purpose of some sort there. And
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then right in the middle of the moat are
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all the stones.
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But this is really the farthest point
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when you're walking around the circle
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that the people the walkway is. And
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there were other items built out here as
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well, like off on the horizon over
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there.
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This uh Stonehenge was not the first
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monument in this landscape. The area has
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been important to
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kneel with people for hundreds of years
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before building work started. Stretching
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across the landscape in front of you,
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700 meters away, is Stonehenge.
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Cursus built 500 years before Stonehenge
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started. 735
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735.
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This is definitely why the most
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congregation of people are on this side
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because this is as close as you could
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stand
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behind the ropes to the stones.
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One second.
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Now I take another one.
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I know there's going to be a lot of wind
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noise on this, but
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All
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go.
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You can't you can't park a car right
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there. It's also interesting how similar
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some of these are to the way the Easter
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Island rocks look. In fact, you look
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over here, it kind of almost looks like
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it has a
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same symmetrical style as the Easter
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Island heads
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kind of. At least that's like similar. I
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mean, they're rocks. They're rectangular
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rocks, so they're definitely going to
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look the same, but it's giving that
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vibes as well,
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which is another mystery mystery of
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rocks. No one really knows.
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on the long
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lonesome road back to the visitor
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center.
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Modernday Stonehenge.
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It receives more than 1 million visitors
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a year
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due to the fragile below ground. Okay.
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Belowground archaeology, preserve stone
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surfaces, prehistoric carvings. Access
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inside the circle is possible only
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at certain times outside normal
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operating hours. Wonder when those times
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would be.
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The prehistoric temple. Okay. Temple
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built 4,500 years ago or more.
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Masterpiece of engineering with stones
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carefully arranged to line up with the
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movement of the sun.
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and exit through the gift shop. Got some
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different items here. You got a bear
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wearing a Stonehenge shirt. You got a
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water bottle. You have a coaster over
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here as well. You got this little sun.
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Oh, here you go. Here's a little uh
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little miniature little miniature uh
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Stonehenge thing. That's kind of cute.
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Dude, I want to get a magnet, though.
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I'm not in the mood for a magnet. It's
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not wanting to focus, though. It's like
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another mystery is why this isn't
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focusing. That's the biggest mystery.
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Take a look at this. This is like a
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little neck pillow, something you bring
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out a plane, but it's like one of the
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like one of the stones. This right here
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is a gold bronze.
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That's what bronze cold cast right here.
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All right. I ended up purchasing a
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couple. I got two magnets. I got one
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that says I've seen the stones. And then
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I've also got this one which is kind of
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like a 3Dish style kind of perforated or
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pushing out there which I got one of
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each of those. And I also got this bag
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here which has a has the stones on it
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the sun. So I got that. And then I also
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ended up getting this book
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here little uh little information book.
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It's like thin. I put it in my luggage.
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There you go. Souvenirs.
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I'm going to take the bus. I'm waiting
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in the shade, but I'm going to take the
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bus back. I took a taxi over. Take a bus
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back. There's a little more information.
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All the different numbers one through 1
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through 15 there.
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Kind of correlation. I might have to
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read this and
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after I get gain a little bit more
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knowledge, I go, "Oh, I was there. Know
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a little bit more about it." There's
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like the moat around it there. Number
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two would be called, you know what, they
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just have it actually labeled
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as a they just have they don't have it
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labeled as a moat. They have it labeled
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as ditch.
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Just they just call it a ditch cuz there
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was never water. It says the original
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ditch was dug by using
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pics of red deer antlers.
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All right, bus has arrived.
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This is exciting. I am technically on a
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double-decker bus. I'm on the second
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floor of the double-decker bus. Nice
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little half hour ride back to the train
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station. Then from the train station,
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I'm going to take a one-way trip, end up
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in Bath.
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Heat. Heat.
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Oh yeah. What about
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I got to take a train now again
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from Salsbury over to Bath. This is
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interesting. Celebrating 150 years. Back
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in 2009 on the 2nd of May 1859, the
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first passenger train operated between
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Salsbury and Gilligum
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or Gillingham. Your step take care in
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their stations.
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Got a couple moments on the trainer. I
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was just looking at some of the treats
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here that are different in the UK than
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they are in the US. Like
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they don't have lion bars in the US or
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whispers
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or twirls.
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They have M&M's
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a crunchy
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or you can go on a full picnic
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picnic bar.
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Train 166201
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pulling into
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station.
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There's no seats on this one. So, I got
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to stand here next to the next to the
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luggage rack.
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71. Now,
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that was about an hour. There were no
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seats. So, I had to stand kind of wedged
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over in the corner. Everyone was trying
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to walk by me. Kept saying, "Excuse me,
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wedged next to a bicycle that was parked
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there next to the luggage area. All part
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of the experience, but got here pretty
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quick. That thing moves along pretty
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fast. This is a definitely more crammed
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than that first train I took earlier
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today. All right, I'm in Bath now. Bath
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spot, let's call it." Okay, I've arrived
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in Bath. I really like this uh telephone
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box here decorated and adorned with all
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the flowers. Very, very nice. See, it's
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like full of not it's not painted, not
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graffiti,
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but uh made with flowers. That guy's in
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a rush to catch his train. And that's
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going to do it for today.
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I went to Stonehenge. I'll see you in
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the next video, the vlog.
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Peace out.