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Old February 20th, 2013, 02:18 AM posted to rec.travel.europe
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Default What is your favorite European megalithic? (other thanStonehenge)

Erilar wrote;

I envy you the site at midnight in June!


In the summer of '75 I was backpacking and hitch-hiking Europe (good ole
days.

I hitched out of london and made it to a pub IIRC ~1.5mi from Stonehenge
in the evening.

My plan was to spend the night inside the stones and get-up and out at
1st light.

Earlier that day I got picked-up by a doctor with 2 kids even stopped at
his house for a while.

I told him my plan and he said that the site does attract some odd types
so I should watch myself.

Anyway the pub closed and the locals pointed me in the right direction
down a *long dark deserted road*.

Well I had 2nd thoughts on my plan either from the odd types or the
horror movies of my youth and changed my mind.
And with those old 10PM pub closings I guess I just didn't have enough
liquid courage in me either.

In hindsight I wish I had as it would have made a cool story whenever
Stonehenge came-up in conversation.

I went off into a field and unrolled my sleeping bag.

In the morning I sat up and there in the short distance was Stonehenge,
I remember that view vividly.

Very close to this except without the roadway
http://tinyurl.com/ac5tkwf
Regards, Walter