July 24, 2018, Southampton, England and Stonehenge

Today we disembark the Royal Princess but we still have one last tour to complete. Stonehenge, here we come.

We were up early as our room steward wants to get our room ready for the next guest who will be boarding later this afternoon. As luck would have it there was an early tour leaving the ship for Stonehenge and then dropping us off at Heathrow. What worked out even better was that we arrived at Stonehenge so early that we were vertially the first to arrive allowing us to get photos with no crowds in front of us.

It actually took us a bit of time to find someone to take this photo of us

Stonehenge was built about 5,000 yeras ago. The original circle was started about 3,000 BC with the larger stones added around 2,500 BC. These larger stones were up to 30 feet tall and weighed as much as 25 tons. They most likely traveled about 20 miles to get here.

No easy task for sure

The smaller inner stones were added over the next 50 years. Stonehenge was also a burial place with about 300 mounds possibly covering thousands of individuals

One of the larger mounds

Some of the people were cremated and some just buried.

This is one of the skeletons discovered. Researchers made a mask of what this person would have looked like

Sort of looks like my neighbour

We spend about 2 1/2 hours at Stonehenge. When we arrived there were two other buses in the parking lot. When we left there was close to 50 and it wasn't even noon yet.

The rest of the day was uneventful as we drove back to Heathrow and found our hotel. Tomoorow we head home.