Hampshire
We stopped off again at Stonehenge. As you can see we did not go in (there were hundreds already there, and the entry fee seemed steep) but contented ourselves with taking shots from outside the wire. We had heard and read a lot about the history of Stonehenge so it was quite special to actually be at the site at last.
We pressed on across Salisbury Plain to the city
itself, called at the local supermarket and had a look at the cathedral.
Like many others we were dumbstruck by the west façade, shown here, with its statues of many saints built in to the wall.
We just looked and looked, amazed that such large-scale, multi-faceted work could have been done so many centuries ago.
In the panel below you can see St Christopher, carrying the baby Christ on his shoulder, and, far right, St Margaret; we thought this corner was specially for us!
The cathedral's west wall was enough for one visit, so we didn't even enter the building itself, but had a cursory look at the rest of the city, and set off again to the south, deeper in to Hampshire, and nearer to Southampton.
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