Stonehenge 2014: Summer Solstice!!?

[Nigel]

Saw On Motorway Sign That They Are Expecting Heavy Traffic Around Summer Solstice On Roads Near Stonehenge.
Anyone know what's occurring?
http://www.stonehengecampsite.co.uk/Home/stonehenge-summer-solstice
http://www.efestivals.co.uk/festivals/stonehenge/2013/
http://www.visitwiltshire.co.uk/whats-on/stonehenge-summer-solstice-2014-p639853
http://stonehengecampaign.org.uk/ffsc2014.htm

 

[wiskey]

umm, I would imagine the same as every year ... only bigger because it is a weekend.

 

[sim667]

Yeah loads of people herded from the car park up to the stones..... Police acting militantly........ Lots of people get trashed but pretend not to be........ Bemused cyclists stop and have a look at 6 am............ everyone goes home.........

 

[Chilli.s]

LOTS of people going this year.

 

[Quartz]

Bemused cyclists stop and have a look at 6 am............

They'll be over an hour late. Sunrise will be around 04:42.

 

[sim667]

They'll be over an hour late. Sunrise will be around 04:42.

They go to look at the munted, not the sunrise.

 

[albionism]

They go to look at the munted, not the sunrise.

fucking

 

[wiskey]

Yeah loads of people herded from the car park up to the stones..... Police acting militantly........ Lots of people get trashed but pretend not to be........ Bemused cyclists stop and have a look at 6 am............ everyone goes home.........

You forgot the pissed off druids trying to be serious

 

[Thora]

It's always much, much colder than you expect it will be.

 

[twentythreedom]

It's always much shitter than you expect it to be too

 

[goldenecitrone]

Isn't it six months too late? Lazy bastards.

 

[Bob_the_lost]

4:50? Bah, can't be arsed to get up that early.

 

[Greebo]

4:50? Bah, can't be arsed to get up that early.

You don't get up, you stay up all night.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Isn't it six months too late? Lazy bastards.

^^^This

Stone'enge is all about the winter solstice inn'it.


And Avebury kicks the cunt off Stonehenge.

 

[Bob_the_lost]

You don't get up, you stay up all night.

Them pagans are crazy.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

You don't get up, you stay up all night.

Fucking lightweights, try doing that in Reykjavik in December, now that's fooking hardcore.

 

[Greebo]

^^^This

Stone'enge is all about the winter solstice inn'it. <snip>

The winter solstice light show would've been better if not for cowboy builders skimping on the materials.

 

[TopCat]

You forgot the pissed off druids trying to be serious

Whole fucking family's of them in purple warped my head once. The mushrooms did not help.

 

[JTG]

I went the other year when it hosed down all night, so much so that we couldn't see sunrise anyway. I got searched by Plod on the way in cos their pooch showed an interest, we had to use the disabled bogs to skin up and do lines in and my mate was interviewed live on BBC Radio Wiltshire at 5am whilst on mushrooms
Only 15000 there that rainy midweek. Fuck going there with the weekend fairweather crowd

 

[zenie]

I loved it Don't think I'm able to go this year

Agree with Thora it is very very cold!

 

[Chilli.s]

I reckon everyone should go and see the midsummer sunrise at Stonehenge at least once.

 

[Sirena]

Avebury will be the more beautiful choice and it won't be nearly so crowded or policed.

Once the dawn ceremony is done, there's the village and there's countryside to wander in and there's a nice pub for afterwards.... You could make a day of it - not like Stonehenge...

 

[TopCat]

I went once with 50grams of cubensis and no warm clothes.

 

[Sirena]

Avebury will be the more beautiful choice and it won't be nearly so crowded or policed.

Once the dawn ceremony is done, there's the village and there's countryside to wander in and there's a nice pub for afterwards.... You could make a day of it - not like Stonehenge...

Avebury at dawn this morning....

 

[wiskey]

Agree with Thora it is very very cold!

This is what always catches people out at festivals, it gets bloody cold between 3-5am

 

[blossie33]

I went the first year they reopened it to the public, 1997 was it?
I happened to be staying with relatives in Bournemouth so I went up on the coach as it wasn't too far. it was very cloudy though so not much good for the sunrise. Glad I made the effort though.

 

[scalyboy]

Avebury at dawn this morning....

Great photo. The stone looks very 'warm'

 

[Sirena]

Great photo. The stone looks very 'warm'

Compare it to the cold, grey stones at Stonehenge....

 

[scalyboy]

Compare it to the cold, grey stones at Stonehenge....

Stonehenge as 'city of the dead'? IIRC it had been a cemetery at some point. Avebury I reckon is more celebratory of life - the alternating male and female stones. Wish I was there now

 

[tufty79]

i'd love to visit avebury (esp. for solstice). stonehenge less so.