Uh... that's a line from "Stonehenge" by Spinal Tap. If you don't know it then don't worry about it. If you DO know it then you'll appreciate this post.

Top level of a classic English double decker bus.

It's very weird, after taking a train for about an hour and a half and then a double decker bus the Stonehenge monument just appears on the side of the road. It's as if you are driving up highway 92 and instead of coming across Crystal Springs Reservoir there is this 5000 year old monument. You kind of expect it to be set back off the road like the Matterhorn at Disneyland. You don't expect to be able to just drive by it every day on your way to work, which, clearly many people do. I bet they think we are stupid for traveling all this way to see a stack of rocks.you come across Stonehenge situated right in a fork of a road

"You can't listen to Nigel, HE'S CONFUSED isn't he?"

Beth pulls off a self portrait!

On our way back to Salisbury to catch the train back to London, we got to sit in the very front of the bus on the upper level. It's really weird up there, and because you are so high, there is no driver on either side, and it rocks back and forth a lot.

Something very weird happened last night... I almost died... well, maybe not. We went to have a sandwich and although I won't tell you which "sub-mariner inspired" American chain we ate at, apparently there was something in the food that I was allergic to. This has happened to me once before after eating pizza so clearly there is a type of cheese or ham that I am allergic to. After eating and going for a short walk I started to itch something fierce.

Beth, luckily having been a pharmacy technician, knew exactly what to do. Even though we didn't have any Benedryl or were we going to be able to buy any that late at night, she knew what the "active ingredient" in Benedryl was and knew that she had some sleeping pills that would substitute. Wow, was I lucky. Last time this happened my throat started to swell up and it made it hard to swallow. Who knows what could have happened.

Today we searched out a pharmacy to get stocked up just in case.

After the return train from Stonehenge we walked across the street from the train station and had what was billed as "World Famous Fish and Chips". Uh... OK. But it wasn't without some excitement. While we were waiting for our meal to arrive, a woman on the other side of the restaurant yelled out..."Hey...he's got my money!". We looked over and saw a man running out the door and she was standing there pointing. The waitress tried to stop him, but couldn't. In a flash me and another male customer, (much bigger then me) went running out the door to chase the guy down. I hadn't really thought of what we would do if we caught him, but it was an exciting chase down into the Victoria Underground Station.

Once he got down there it was impossible to imagine catching him so me and the other dude walked back up to our wives who were probably worried sick.

As it turns out, this woman had her purse on the ground against a wall under her table. I can't imagine HOW this guy got it out, but apparently he sat down at the table behind her and managed to pull her purse out and get her billfold out. However, instead of getting up and leaving then he apparently started to go THRU the billfold and take her money and passport. After we got back from the chase she said that she found the billfold under the other table where he had ditched it.

It brought about a very scary fact people target travelers. After that we tied all our bags and cameras together so that we could enjoy our Fish and Chips... oh I mean, "World Famous Fish and Chips".

Roberto was our waiter, he almost sounded Irish and then in the next breath he would sound English, maybe Cockney, and then every once in a while he would say something that sounded Spanish. As it turned out he was from Argentina.

This is what we travel with, we're using the Canon 20D with a wide angle lens and the Sony PC101 with a wide angle adapter and shot gun mic, the gizmo on the bottom is an REI mini tripod. We learned in Australia a couple of years ago that having cases for the cameras is a waste of time. If you bother to put it in a case, you won't use it as much. These things live in our hands or around our necks.