stonehenge? - never heard of it.

So one of the most interesting things about my trip, or rather leading up to my trip, is that about half of the english and welsh students that I told I was going, said that they have never heard of it. wtf! - how could people have never heard of stonehenge? I haven't really been able to figure out why. Maybe its because they have so many old buildings and ruins around here that it's hard to keep up with them all? or maybe they just haven't seen "n.l. european vacation"?

I went on the tour through the american studies exchange department at the uni. Our first stop was in avebury which ended up being a little more impressive than stonehenge, both in size and the fact that you can actually get up and close and touch the stones unlike at stonehenge.

Here's a list of similarities:

. both were built in the neolithic period around 3000bce (or of you're sara palin - right about the time that dinosaurs and humans were living together, shortly after god created the earth) .

. both are in the shape of a circle .

. both have stones that are 15ft or so high, and weigh around 40tons - or about 6 yellow school buses .

. both are not far from each other in southern england .


Here's a list of dissimilarities:

. stonehenge is about the moon and the sun / avebury is about fertility and magnetism .

. avebury is around a quarter mile in diameter / stonehenge is around 110ft in diameter .