Disembarked the ship and caught a tour bus to Salisbury Cathedral, Stonehenge and Windsor Castle.
Salisbury Cathedral is huge and used for 1,500 services a year. It wasn't damaged in WWII but way back when Henry VIII decided to reform churches and ordered the destruction of the windows and statues. Many have been restored.
A little bit of English Mist:
The cloisters:
The leadlight windows were superb:
A little bit of English Mist:
The Cathedral holds one of the 4 remaining originals of the Magna Carta dating from June 1215. It is considered to be the birth of democracy as it stresses that everyone had to treat people fairly and no one was above the law.
The Cathedral also has the world's oldest working mechanical clock from 1386.
Stonehenge was great. It didn't bother us that you couldn't get close to the stones because it meant you could get photos of the stones without people around them. Ominous grey clouds rolled in making for some spectacular skies but it didn't rain till we got back to the bus.
We went to Windsor to see the Castle but didn't visit it.
Passed Runnymede on the way to Heathrow.
Passed Runnymede on the way to Heathrow.
We were delivered to Heathrow terminal 5 to catch a 9:30 pm BA flight.
Didn't get much sleep on the plane. We arrived in Sydney at 6am after a 28 hr flight.
