Where have you been?

So this site is not difficult to find as it is about 100 yards off the A303, a main highway down into the south west of England. It was used as an astrological guide blah blah blah. All that can be found here.

There were three things I would like to point out about the site and how it is set up. First, some historical sites in the UK offer audio tours and Stonehenge is one. The audio give a bit about the history and loads of drama! There were readings from Thomas Hardy's books, long pauses for dramatic effect, and a finale that made me die laughing.

The second thing of note was that there is a huge fence around the site. This is installed to keep those pesky non-paying people out. You see, there is a parking lot on one side of the road (not the A303 but the other smaller road which the site lays on) and a tunnel under the road leading to the inside portion of the fence. You have to park, pay at the boot, and walk under the tunnel to the site. Fair enough, they are trying to develop the site as a deserving World Heritage Site deserves.

This brings me to my third interesting point. As I was saying the entire site lay just off the A303, the main route into the south-west of England. Apparently there is a push to have a large portion of the A303 changed into a tunnel in order to "transform the visitor experience with better access to the landscape". I found news paper articles that say the project was to begin in 2005 but nothing had started when I was down there. More information here.