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CARL 138 posts |
Sep 07, 2010, 07:16
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Imagine the scene; you are at an advanced age and you have just one more site visit in you. You are allowed to re-visit any site you have once been to. Where would your last ever site be - and why? To start the ball rolling I would pick Castlerigg Stone Circle. It would be a glorious, still summer's morning and I would have the site to myself watching the sun rise. Although it was busy when I visited, the sense of 'awe' was tangible. This is a very special place and the views are almost indescribable. My brief visit has left a mark on me. Funnily enough I may be doing a re-visit in a fortnight - although I hope to have many more years 'old stoning' to come!
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Sanctuary 1836 posts |
Sep 07, 2010, 07:29
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CARL wrote: Imagine the scene; you are at an advanced age and you have just one more site visit in you. You are allowed to re-visit any site you have once been to. Where would your last ever site be - and why? To start the ball rolling I would pick Castlerigg Stone Circle. It would be a glorious, still summer's morning and I would have the site to myself watching the sun rise. Although it was busy when I visited, the sense of 'awe' was tangible. This is a very special place and the views are almost indescribable. My brief visit has left a mark on me. Funnily enough I may be doing a re-visit in a fortnight - although I hope to have many more years 'old stoning' to come! Avebury for me Carl ending at the the Sanctuary which will be my last resting place albeit in ashes!!
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Sanctuary 1836 posts |
Sep 07, 2010, 07:34
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Sanctuary wrote: CARL wrote: Imagine the scene; you are at an advanced age and you have just one more site visit in you. You are allowed to re-visit any site you have once been to. Where would your last ever site be - and why? To start the ball rolling I would pick Castlerigg Stone Circle. It would be a glorious, still summer's morning and I would have the site to myself watching the sun rise. Although it was busy when I visited, the sense of 'awe' was tangible. This is a very special place and the views are almost indescribable. My brief visit has left a mark on me. Funnily enough I may be doing a re-visit in a fortnight - although I hope to have many more years 'old stoning' to come! Avebury for me Carl ending at the the Sanctuary which will be my last resting place albeit in ashes!! PS... And as a two fingered salute to officialdom and with help from friends...climb Silbury Hill to take one last look around to see what our the ancestors created for themselves and for us to just marvel at.
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goffik 3570 posts |
Sep 07, 2010, 08:51
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For me, it would have to be the Ring Of Brodgar... Absolutely everything about it blew me away. The location, the surrounding scenery, the sheer scale, the individual stones, the fact that it was erected - henge and all - out of the bedrock! Also it was the destination at the peak of our honeymoon! Driving up from Southampton, we stopped at various places on the way, reaching Orkney mid-way through our trip, returning with a full stone-filled itinerary courtesy of Bigsweetie and Hob on the way back. The sunset at Brodgar is something I will never forget. G x
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Vicster 662 posts |
Sep 07, 2010, 14:47
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goffik wrote: For me, it would have to be the Ring Of Brodgar... Absolutely everything about it blew me away. The location, the surrounding scenery, the sheer scale, the individual stones, the fact that it was erected - henge and all - out of the bedrock! Also it was the destination at the peak of our honeymoon! Driving up from Southampton, we stopped at various places on the way, reaching Orkney mid-way through our trip, returning with a full stone-filled itinerary courtesy of Bigsweetie and Hob on the way back. The sunset at Brodgar is something I will never forget. G x Blimey Goff, that's one obliging wife you've got!! ;-)
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goffik 3570 posts |
Sep 07, 2010, 19:54
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She's the best! :) Actually, I consider that we're incredibly lucky, cos we both got into stones at the same time, so each new site we visit is the first time for both of us - the excitement's equal, and we don't tire of it cos we share the passion! The wedding was based around the holiday rather than the other way around, which made it easier and more exciting... G x PS - I should add to my previous post that, before I pay my final visit to Brodgar, I'd first of all wait for Sanctuary at the base of Silbury Hill and slap him for climbing it! ;)
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Sanctuary 1836 posts |
Sep 07, 2010, 20:05
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goffik wrote: She's the best! :) Actually, I consider that we're incredibly lucky, cos we both got into stones at the same time, so each new site we visit is the first time for both of us - the excitement's equal, and we don't tire of it cos we share the passion! The wedding was based around the holiday rather than the other way around, which made it easier and more exciting... G x PS - I should add to my previous post that, before I pay my final visit to Brodgar, I'd first of all wait for Sanctuary at the base of Silbury Hill and slap him for climbing it! ;) Heh heh...meet me at the top and as a former Soton boy myself we'll share a glass or two to the ancestors. You can slap me on the way down then if you like!!
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thesweetcheat 1728 posts |
Sep 07, 2010, 20:41
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Possibly too depressing a thought, this thread. As Half Man Half Biscuit once sang: "Are these my ultimate pyjamas? Is this my final dressing-gown?" I had toyed with the idea of getting the care-home folks to push me to the top of Pen y Fan, but really it would have to be Nine Maidens of Boskednan, on West Penwith's moors. ..... "I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath, and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth."
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GLADMAN 405 posts |
Sep 07, 2010, 21:07
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CARL wrote: Imagine the scene; you are at an advanced age and you have just one more site visit in you. You are allowed to re-visit any site you have once been to. Where would your last ever site be - and why? To start the ball rolling I would pick Castlerigg Stone Circle. It would be a glorious, still summer's morning and I would have the site to myself watching the sun rise. Although it was busy when I visited, the sense of 'awe' was tangible. This is a very special place and the views are almost indescribable. My brief visit has left a mark on me. Funnily enough I may be doing a re-visit in a fortnight - although I hope to have many more years 'old stoning' to come! To be honest I treat every site as if it's the last I will ever visit
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tjj 1763 posts |
Edited Sep 07, 2010, 22:42
Sep 07, 2010, 21:15
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GLADMAN wrote: CARL wrote: Imagine the scene; you are at an advanced age and you have just one more site visit in you. You are allowed to re-visit any site you have once been to. Where would your last ever site be - and why? To start the ball rolling I would pick Castlerigg Stone Circle. It would be a glorious, still summer's morning and I would have the site to myself watching the sun rise. Although it was busy when I visited, the sense of 'awe' was tangible. This is a very special place and the views are almost indescribable. My brief visit has left a mark on me. Funnily enough I may be doing a re-visit in a fortnight - although I hope to have many more years 'old stoning' to come! To be honest I treat every site as if it's the last I will ever visit Good answer Gladman! I'm very much into 'firsts' at the moment; more time now from the 'bringing up kids, keeping the wolf from the door' daily grind. Castlerigg is definitely on the list, as are many of the amazing sites in Ireland. Orkney is somewhere I dream of going back to but if I really had to choose ... it would be Uffington White Horse (my symbol of home for the past decade) and behind Uffington Castle the shining white Ridgeway undulates towards Wiltshire and Avebury.
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