Greenie at Stonehenge and South African sacred sites

Greenie at Stonehenge and South African sacred sites

So we went to Stonehenge. I have a particular affinity with the workings of nature which includes an interest in crystals. Big boulders will do even better.

The stones were awesome, but the experience, if you can call it that, was a huge disappointment! A big fat tourist trap. Far too many people, then they rush you
£7 to enter and you still don’t get anywhere near the stones. I was left wanting to feel the stones.

Lucky for us we met a druid there who was campaigning for the return of the remains from the cairns back to the site of Stonehenge. Who knew they had ever been removed? He advised us to head 20 miles further to Avebury where we would be spoilt for stones and we could get up close and personal with them.

So we did. And we did. We will never truly know what the druids got up to as their craft was passed down orally and never committed to text. The Roman accounts indicate they might have been a bloodthirsty lot.

True to this blog I have to share that we have sacred and mystical spaces in Cape Town too. Visit the Sunpath Sacred Sites web page for some stunning pics and ideas that should make you positively want to go exploring. Stones with holes that capture the sun at certain times. Or “faces” in the mountains that look across to each other. Even ancient inscriptions on rocks. We got them too. Happy exploring!

Soccer World Cup 2010,  fixtures

Soccer World Cup 2010, fixtures

The fixtures for 2010 Soccer World Cup to be played at Cape Town stadium, formerly known as Green Point stadium are:-

Friday 11 June – Uruguay vs France
Monday 14 June – Italy vs Paraguay
Friday 18 June – England vs Algeria
Monday 21 June – Korea vs Portugal
Thursday 24 June – Netherlands vs Cameroon
Tuesday 29 June – Spain vs  ?
Saturday 3 July – Quarter Final
Tuesday 6 July – Semi Final

I do sometimes wish they wouldn’t change place names so regularly in South Africa. These days I can’t be sure I know the places being talked about because there are so many new names. You need a new map or you could find the old place names don’t correspond to the current road signs. Fortunately it’s less of a problem in the Western Cape Province.

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