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Salisbury Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Salisbury, United Kingdom
And so it begins...
I booked my flights today with a very patient Danny at STA in Manchester, who was very good at calming me down when I started to panic, which I did, a lot. A 3 minute phone call to New Zealand later and my Magic Bus tour is booked! I am now ...
Saturday April 20
... , today's Salisbury, is a medieval example of a planned town designed in a grid or chequer pattern. Five rivers converge here. Salisbury was granted its charter in 1227 by Henry III, to allow weekly markets and annual fairs to take place. Walking tour: ...
Salisbury, Sarum, Stonehenge,,, how sssibiliant
... Salisbury. Salisbury is obviously famous for its cathedral with the tallest church spire in the United Kingdom (123m/404 ft - which fact we just shamelessly got from Wikipedia). It is also home to one ...
Five days to go...
With just a few days left before the youth team fly to Sofia for the start of this years' Bulgaria Summer Camp excitement is rising and final preparations are being made. As ever, a Trussell Trust team together with Lipnitsa staff will be taking 40 ...
Ahoy me hearties
Today was Tony and Steve's day as I wandered around the Portsmouth Historic Dockyards. To get there I had a short blast down the motorway which I have now got sorted. Turn the radio right up so you can't hear the engine scream, foot down and off you go. ...
Day visit to Wiltshire College
This is our third school visit, and it turns out to be a similar collega as Fareham College. Although reception by the staff, the talk we had with the various heads of department were very nice, the day felt like a bit of a waste. We had all asked for ...
Old Sarum and New Sarum
... the premiere run of a play based on William Golding’s book, The Spire, his imagined story of the construction of Salisbury Cathedral’s spire. (Golding, of Lord of the Flies fame, was a schoolmaster in Salisbury 1945-62, working within sight ...
Salisbury
According to The Travel Insider, "Strangely, Salisbury has been inexplicably and unjustly neglected by many Americans and the travel writers they rely upon." Well, they just don't know about Stacy and the amazing research and planning she puts into a ...
Angolphile Spring Break: Salisbury
Salisbury is another quaint English town that we decided to visit mainly for the Cathedral. Its claim to fame is a steeple that tilts about 7 degrees off vertical, but I don't think it’s noticeable unless you’re looking for it. Of ...
Apr 25, 2010
England is really, really cold
... we got there. WRONG. Over breakfast this morning we discussed the possibility of visiting one or two places on our trip across to Salisbury, where we were staying for the next 5 nights. However, the weather forecast was not good, so I suggested that it ...
Stonehenge and Salisbury
... way at 9:00 am through the tube to the train to get to Salisbury because we were going to go visit Stonehenge and the Salisbury Cathedral. We arrived in Salisbury and took a double decker bus (It was our first time on one!!) up to Stonehenge. ...
Stonehenge is so much smaller
... big. All the photos we have seen over the past implied a certain scale, or grandeur, and it was just not there! Salisbury Cathedral is well worth a visit. To walk around a church that was initially consecrated in the early 13th century, and subsequently ...
Stonehenge
After another 2 hour drive, we finally arrived at our final destination: Stongehenge!!! Stongehenge is one of the most famous sites in the world - composed of very very large stones and surrounded by burial mounds! We only had 45 minutes there, but had ...
Stonehenge
Première journée à Bath, on a décidé de se rendre au site préhistorique de Stonehenge. Le YMCA a un dépliant d'une compagnie qui nous amène à la porte, pas de zigonage dans le train et les transferts... Une heure de pure délice campagnard ...
Success! I did NOT knock Stonehenge over!
... (thank you Case) but I found it really cool! After our tour, Cristabel, Nicole, Becca, Elise and I visited Salisbury Cathedral, popped into the Saturday market, did a little touristy shopping and rounded out the day. Yet another ...
Getting the bike heading to Paris
... about an hour to get through, pick up my bag and get to the bus ticket counter. "I’d like a one way senior fare to Salisbury please." “You have a senior bus card?” “No. I have a senior rail card never needed a senior bus card ...
Arundel to Salisbury plus Stonehenge and Avebury
... ; On to Avebury to see the stone megaliths – slow going today on the narrow roads. We checked in then went into Salisbury for some dinner but couldn’t find much at a reasonable price so ended up with Maccas. We also found a poppy ...
Beautifully Breathtaking
... Christmas gift. After picking up a wonderfully tart drink from Costa, we head back out of town and head off towards the Salisbury Plains. This area is the home to one of the most marvelous wonders of the world, Stonehenge. I have to say that ...
Salisbury
... be expected, despite the combination sleet/rain that would plague us most of the day. A couple hours later we arrived at Salisbury, choosing to hit the cathedral first in hopes that the rain would let up before we visited Stonehenge. What a sight it ...
Day 13. To Salisbury
... step to Salisbury. We had intended to go to Stone Henge but we were sick of driving so didn't. Instead we walked around Salisbury Cathedral which was magnificent. Very disappointed to miss the choir singing and it was shut too. We are staying in a Tudor ...
Dorset where Madonna now lives
... took a look at an old cinema. Then went down to the Salisbury Cathedral it was magnificent. A secret lies in the structure of the stone masonry of the ceilings when looking at a church or ...
What can I give this Christmas?
This year 6,657 Christmas shoeboxes were donated to The Trussell Trust for distribution in Bulgaria. This is another record and a reminder that there are a lot of you out there that really care about others much less fortunate than yourselves. If the ...
Stonehenge!!!
... today cause we were tryin to get to Stonehenge!!!! got only 2 hours of sleep, so we were pretty tired. The direct tickets to Salisbury were sold out. Instead we took a bus to Bath which is a 1/2 an hour away from salisbury. Got a few more yiieaahs ...