Today was my free day, so I decided to go to Salisbury to visit Stonehenge. Navigating the trains was so much easier than expected, but I was glad to have a couple classmates with me. The 90-minute train ride to London felt like nothing as we chatted away; the English countryside is so stunning that its beauty prevented me from catching up on sleep that I desperately needed. We arrived in Salisbury and took a short cab ride to Stonehenge. Our driver could not have been more friendly, though his driving gave me an incredible amount of anxiety. Once in Stonehenge, it was absolutely picturesque standing in front of one of the wonders of the world. The mystery surrounding who put the stones there / how they put the stones there is fascinating to me. The arrangement of the stones so that the sun hits them a certain way during the solstices only adds to the mystique. We returned to Salisbury to explore and found a cute pub for lunch before catching the train back to London. Salisbury itself is very old with one famous cathedral and what seemed like one thousand barber shops. Seriously, I would love to know what the barber-to-resident ratio of Salisbury is; it has to be ridiculously high. Back in London, I couldn’t resist the allure of Primark, so I ended up spending too much time perusing the aisles there but came out with a few good purchases. This was my favorite night of getting to know my classmates while roaming the streets of London.
