It’s one of those things that is on my bucket list. Sort of. Maybe. I’d love to be at Stonehenge for the summer solstice.
Not so much for the party, although there is one. In fact this morning there were eight thousand people, more or less at Stonehenge. There was drumming, and dancing and pagans and druids and hippies and tourists and people dressed as witches and wizards. Which in itself would be fun, just to watch all the people.
They seem to come up with new ideas as to what purpose Stonehenge served every few years, but that doesn’t seem to deter people from holding various celebrations at the stones each year. It would be fun to see. Although maybe a bit to many people for my liking. That many people hanging around would make it a bit difficult to get a good sense of the place for yourself.
Which is why it’s on the “maybe” side of my bucket list. I’d like to see it, but maybe with fewer people hanging around. It’s one of those things I would like to see, but I won’t think my life is incomplete if it doesn’t happen.
Although there could be other reasons to give it a try some year. This year the Glastonbury Festival gets underway this afternoon fairly close to the standing stones, and, as expected from one of the world’s biggest music festivals, it’s a pretty impressive lineup. So that might be fun. The combination of the two would make for an interesting trip.
But you can watch the sun rise at Stonehenge online these days. I didn’t. Because it’s several hours ahead of us and I wasn’t getting up in the middle of the night to watch the sun rise in another part of the world, then go back to bed as the sun rose in my part of the world. But apparently there were about one hundred fifty thousand people who did.
Maybe. Some day.