Henge 10!

[NicWilson]

Originally Posted by angry-kid

If I have a car by then, I'll be there

This

[angry-kid]

Originally Posted by NicWilson

This

Get yourself to manchester and you're welcome for the ride Nic

edit: the 4 hour ride lol

[NicWilson]

Originally Posted by angry-kid

Get yourself to manchester and you're welcome for the ride Nic

edit: the 4 hour ride lol

That's doable *strokes chin*

[Drum]

Originally Posted by angry-kid

edit: the 4 hour ride lol

And that's just the queue for the car park once you get there!

I'm undecided this year as yet.

[angry-kid]

lol public transport is an option, one of the london airports is probably closest?

[Bonsai Ent]

You can get a direct train from London Waterloo if I recall.

[angry-kid]

Originally Posted by Bonsai Ent

You can get a direct train from London Waterloo if I recall.

circa £30 from london waterloo to Salisbury, takes 2 hours, followed by a 20 minute bus ride to the stones apparently

[Bonsai Ent]

Yup, that's what I did last time I went, though my ticket was slightly more cos I came from Cambridge and took a tube from Kings X to Waterloo.

Imagine I'll be doing the same this year.

The bus to the stones is every hour starting from evening, and includes a trip back in the morning.
It's probably walkable (speaking as a country lad), but I suspect the thought of walking it would be less appealing the morning after than the night before.

[angry-kid]

oh aye, only 7-8 miles- great fun with a couple of beers and its only gonna take 2 hours anyway at most. Just planning to have a bit of a tight timescale though what with work and travel and stuff

[Feltros]

To go back to Samians point, there aren't really 'tents' as such anymore, i'm pretty sure they aren't allowed. Just lots of people sitting in circles around their belongings/beers and lighting spliffs when the police aren't nearby. Then everyone wanders over to the stones and you can barely move for the flow of human bodies through the site.
As for the driving, yes I too spent 5 hours getting there.... and we only left from Southampton! It was an hour and we were within 3 miles of the site, then 4 hours sitting in the queue to make the turning into the car park whilst they search every individual car coming (Or so people in other cars with friends up front told us). We ended up getting scared and driving to Salisbury and jumping on the bus with everyone else and it arrived pretty quickly at the Henge for about £10 (we were told on the Henge website it'd be free though so we were right pissed off by now).

We left about 12 noon to get there expecting a 2 hour trip, arrived at about 10pm after a hell of a traffic jam, and a few pints in Salisbury to take the edge off the wait.

[Bonsai Ent]

I found the train-bus way much easier on my frazzled brain the next day. No way I could have coped with driving... of course I don't own a car anymore, so it isn't even an option.

[farmyardchap]

What date is it on?

[jay_k]

Originally Posted by farmyardchap

What date is it on?

Summer solstice is June 21st.

Henge really doesn't seem my kinda thing, gonna head to a little festival in some woods instead

[Hux]

It's an awesome place to do acid, probably the best place I've done it setting wise. Feels really powerful around the stones..but I doubt it would be much fun sober..

[jay_k]

Originally Posted by Hux

It's an awesome place to do acid, probably the best place I've done it setting wise. Feels really powerful around the stones..but I doubt it would be much fun sober..

Its just the queues and crowds that I can't be arsed with, especially if I'm tripping...

[Hux]

Originally Posted by jay_k

Its just the queues and crowds that I can't be arsed with, especially if I'm tripping...

I waited until I'd found my spot.. you know,, The Spot, my anchoring point, and took it there. The crowds were what made it so special, the constant beat of the drum made it feel quite shamanic, and the cheers of the crowds would always lift me up and up and up... and the stone... my god... THE STONES.

But then somebody ripped up my anchor and lead us back to the car.. It's own little bubble universe; in a sea of self adsorbed bubble universes, slowly drifting apart, away from their once holy unity into apathetic consumerist contempt...

[Drum]

Originally Posted by Feltros

It was an hour and we were within 3 miles of the site, then 4 hours sitting in the queue to make the turning into the car park whilst they search every individual car coming (Or so people in other cars with friends up front told us).

Took me 20 mins on the bike.

I don't think they were searching all cars, but definitely snarling things up so you'd think twice next time.

The body searches on the gates themselves were a bit half arsed.

[Hux]

When I went to henge there was some guy shouting "ECSTASY OR ACID?!" right in front of the security guards, and we called him over and traded some acid for some weed right under their noses. They didn't say shit. ANd half the police looked like they were on acid themselves...

Although I did have visions towards the end of the police herding us into orwellian dystopias, but that's just my mind wandering

[azax]

I dont think Im ever going again, security everywhere pulling people off for being 'intoxicated', sniffer dogs, flying spymobiles...........no thanks.

[Drum]

Originally Posted by azax

I dont think Im ever going again, security everywhere pulling people off for being 'intoxicated', sniffer dogs, flying spymobiles...........no thanks.

Which henge did you go to? It didn't seem like that at all for me last year. A few bored looking gate security doing the occasional half arsed search. Didn't see anyone busted, didn't see anyone even spoken to sternly.

YMMV I guess