English Countryside: (11 pictures) - Days 3, 4, and 5
Stonehenge - It just happened that Stonehenge was right
off the road we were taking between London and Sarah's home in Somerset
County, so of course we had to stop by. It was in the middle of nowhere,
it seemed, with not even a gas station nearby. It was also closed
when we got there, but we walked right up to the fence that was pretty
close to the stones. It didn't really seem like it was a big deal
when you are there, until you think about it more and wonder just how those
foreign rocks got there 4,000 years ago.
Me and Sarah at the Eden Project - The first full day
I was in Southwest England, we drove about an hour and a half into Cornwall
County to see the Eden Project. It is a biosphere that was made more
for education about our ecosystem than for science and experimentation.
Inside the Eden Project - The insides of all the different
biosphere bubbles were filled with plants from different areas of the world.
They even had a California section where I could recognize some of the
plants. It took about an hour and a half to walk around all of the
trails inside the bubbles.
Eden Project - Here is another shot of the biospheres.
It actually looked bigger from the outside than the inside, but still it
was very neat to visit and walk around in.
Restormel Castle - This is a castle we found on the way back
home from the Eden Project. It turned out to be the most genuine
castle I saw on my trip because all of the other ones were in cities and
they were all touristy and restored. This one was pretty much exactly
how it looked when it was a working castle, except of course the hundreds
of years of deterioration.
Restormel Castle - It was a very small castle, but it also turned
out to be my favorite one of the whole trip, because it actually looked
like a castle and there was hardly anybody else around.
Me and Sarah in her field - This is one of my favorite pictures
from my trip. I put my camera on a log and used it's timer to take
this picture. We had walked about 15 minutes from Sarah's house,
after seeing all of her cows, barns, and tractors, to the top of this hill
here where the picture was taken.
Me in Sarah’s field - I forget exactly how much land Sarah's
family had, but it is all very pretty and very green.
Sarah at Burnt House Farm - This is Sarah in front of
her house that was built over 100 years ago. Their farm is named
Burnt House Farm. I guess before the current white house, we know
what happened to the previous one.
Me at the Ocean - The day before I left England, Sarah
and I drove to the southern coast of England to a town called Lyme Regis.
She actually let me try driving her car also, which was different of course
because the steering wheel was on the right hand side and I drove on the
left hand side of the road. I think I did ok though.
Lyme Regis town - This is a really old town on the coast that
used to be an important trade center because it had a protected bay for
all the ships coming from all over the world.
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