road trip...

This past weekend, Matt and I decided to test our skills at driving on the left side of the road… We rented a car and headed south and west. After getting stuck on the motorway for hours, we pulled off and went to visit the town of Wells, which had a very impressive Cathederal.

By evening we made it to Torqay – one of the cities of the ‘English Riviera.’ We wandered down to the city center for dinner, and found ourselves surrounded by hen and stag parties – quite entertaining, if not quite our speed. We ventured back down the following morning to see the marina and it was lovely.

We left Torqay and headed towards the city of Exeter, which was about an hour away on beautiful country roads. Exeter was also interesting with a large impressive cathederal, and a lovely waterfront area of restaurants and shops.

After Exeter we ended up for the evening in the village of Sherborne, a lovely example of a Dorset town. We stayed in a cute little B&B right on one of the main streets, and wandered the sleepy town a bit late in the evening. Monday morning we drove from Sherborne to Shaftesbury, another beautiful little town on the top of a hill. There is a photo from when we lived in London in the mid 1980s of Amy and I in Shaftesbury, so it was a goal to find the same view – which we did!

After Shaftesbury, we made our way to Stonehenge. The site is not what you would first expect to see. The ruins are sandwiched between two pretty busy roads, and it is surprising that there wasn’t more control on how close those roads could be built! Still, the ruins are amazing and trying to imagine the sheer amount of human energy that was spent dragging the stones for hundreds of miles and erecting the circle is just mind-boggling.