Stonehenge and Salisbury (23 February 2014)

Before making a trip to the named places, the last time I ventured outside of my university town (and county) was ...in December? There were, of course, constant wanderlustings over visiting London over and over again (as I live and study a short train ride to London). The problem why I did not make any of these day trips to London was because I had this fear of travelling alone in such a 'big' city. Of course eventually I managed to make several day trips to London alone after:

1. a friend agreed to accompany and go with me to London to visit museums and galleries, but couldn't come at last minute...after I had already booked and printed my train tickets;
2. someone from my seminar had told me she occasionally visits London alone to do some shopping and the freedom to do anything she wants without waiting or having someone take their time;
3. another friend also makes day trips to London alone and visits museums and galleries and walk by foot to London.

Anyways, as titled in this blog post this post is not mainly about London neither does it consists of my pictures of London. Instead it's a post about my trip to Stonehenge and Salisbury - the first ever trip outside of my university county in 2014 - which was organised by my university's international support. I didn't find out about or rather I had neglected the emails sent by the international support about trips to English or Great British cities or towns. My choice of visiting these two places was merely that I thought about that there wouldn't be any other opportunity nor would I have the time to visit if I had organised myself. Honestly, I was not familiar with Salisbury before purchasing my trip to these places. During the first term, I think there was another trip organised to go to Stonehenge except to go to Bath instead of Salisbury. (which I will visit Bath sometime soon I'm not sure when but sometime soon)

I managed to invite another friend to join me on the trip, Greer, and found out others who would be joining, Christina and Severine. We started off the trip by leaving campus at around 7:45am-ish? Arriving in Stonehenge around 10. Unfortunately, the weather was miserable, cloudy, cold enough to appreciate Stonehenge. Yes, what a lovely way to spend a historic ancient English heritage with a bit of the English weather! ...I didn't stay too long at Stonehenge due to the weather and kept hesitating to move forward to the new visitor centre.