Stonehenge and the beautiful Bournemouth

This morning we started early, because we wanted to see the sunrise near Salisbury, at the Stonehenge. This event was so beautiful. The sky became red, orange and pink and after an hour there were clouds. Then the clouds weren’t dark or white, they were orange. This process was one of the most beautiful one, we have ever seen.

Stonehenge is near Salisbury and about 5000 years old, but just in the 20th century reliable information was found to help to find out the order of the Avalanche Control of the stones.
The Stonehenge was created in three phases from 3000-1500 BC.
The first phase was from 3000 to 2000 BC, the second from 2100 to 2000 BC the last period from 2000 to 1500 BC.
Within those years, Stonehenge was built. The stones came from far away countries and the builders got a lot of view that they could transport the stones.

Stonehenge consists of three parts: the Avenue of Stonehenge to the nearly river Avon, the Wall and the grave condition and the actual stone circle system. The entire structure is aligned to the summer and winter solstice.
The Avenue begins at the north-east edge of the complex and bends exactly to the east. At last it leads to the river Avon.
The complex is surrounded by a wall and a moat, the wall and grave-conditioning.
There are two stone circles, the interior and the exterior.
The interior circle consists of 5 buildings like horseshoes. They are 6 meters high except the building in the middle. It’s 7 meters high.
The exterior circle consists of two circles, the Blue-Stone-Circle and the circle around that.

Until a few years you were allowed to walk in the complex, wherever you wanted, but now you have to walk on a marked way.

At 11  am we drove down to Bournemouth. We arrived at 12 am and then we went to a café to have a nice lunch. We sat in the sun and enjoyed the view of the long and wonderful beach. In the afternoon we went to our hotel and in the evening went to the beach and the “Bournemouth Eye”. We enjoyed this day much and are now really excited about being in Plymouth tomorrow.