After a good nights sleep my back was still playing up so I had to be careful and keep my back straight. The hotel breakfast was good and unlike the breakfast experience in London it was an enjoyable, relaxing affair looking out over the Cathedral grounds.
After breakfast we set off for Avebury to pick up where we left off on our previous visit in June. This time we were were able to take a pleasant leisurely walk around the stones. There was on slight hiccup and that was due to coincidental timing. There was a particular stone that I wanted to investigate close up. One of the stones that faces the southern avenue and it appears to have a seat. Depending on what you read some say this was used to oversee processions to the Avebury site and refer to the magnetic properties of the stone in relation to this.
When we arrived at that stone a group of Germans were congregated in front of it taking part in some sort of ceremony that involved chanting, dancing and perhaps praying. They had piled all their bags up in front of the stone so it wasn’t even possible to sneak behind them for closer inspection of the stone. We decided to move on and come back and investigate later.
After we finished our walk around stone circle we visited the Parish Church of St. James, the small museum, had lunch and visited the shop where I purchased the two books that I regretted not buying on my previous visit.
We then made our way back to the illusive stone. I photographed it an sat on the supposed seat to see if the reported magnetic properties of the stone had any effect. I felt nothing… We then left Avebury, stopping off for an obligatory glimpse of glimpse of Silbury Hill before making our way to Old Sarum, the site of the oldest settlement in Salisbury and the site of the Cathedral before a new one was built in ‘New Salisbury’.
After all that walking it was time to return to the hotel to freshen up before going out for our evening meal. This involved me having a nice relaxing bath which greatly eased the problems I was having with my back. The evening meal was nice but the wine was rather expensive! We called stopped off at ‘The Oak’ before making our way back to the hotel. Along the way we bumped into some Street Pastors and stopped to have a chat with them.
