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"I am a traveller, you are a tourist, he is a tripper"

That favourite irregular verb came to mind looking at a report in The 'graph noting that National Geographic Traveler had been rude about Stonehenge. Main gripes seem to be that it is popular (well fancy...) and local people do not seem to benefit from it. A quick check on google earth demonstrates that Stonehenge is a few miles away from the nearest villages, so this is hardly surprising. The same mag gives the brush off to the Pyramids and the Great Wall of China too.

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Anonymous Anonymous said... 4:02 pm

Ils ont raison, quand meme. It is over-regulated.

Can't wait till Toozday when Bush's goofy "Christians" get their (mild) whopping.

Amities from Sutton.  



Anonymous Anonymous said... 4:26 pm

Yes it is amazing that a site of world level importance is so unregarded though, and the villagers would no doubt like to work in the facilities that could be built around it.It is also a most mysterious and atmospheric place where the ritual penetration of virgins might conceivable be justified as part of a religion . Good ruse this , amazing what you can get away with if you call it a religious belief  



Blogger The Hitch said... 4:46 pm

I remember visiting as a child , it was still possible to touch the stones then , they were officialy behind rope but if it was quiet the kindly security guards would turn a blind eye.
The sort of men now outlawed by rools an elf an safety  



Anonymous Anonymous said... 4:55 pm

"The locals don't benefit from it."

So? And?

Socialism, socialism, socialism. Bossy, bossy, bossy. Now National Geographic has somehow been elevated to a committee on the Exchequer?  



Blogger The Hitch said... 10:22 pm

Im wondering if the death of "Fidel" will be announced this week  



Blogger Croydonian said... 9:23 am

I've driven past it, and it is quite striking. English Heritage, or whoever runs it, charges an arm and a leg and doesn't let you anywhere near the stones, so I took a pass on actually coughing up for the privilege.  



Blogger Rigger Mortice said... 10:00 am

went to PMQs the other day and thought I'd pop into westminster abbey

£10 ....gobsmacked.it's a fucking church  



Anonymous Anonymous said... 10:29 am

"I've driven past it, and it is quite striking."

What, Castro's cadaver?  



Anonymous Anonymous said... 3:38 pm

Sutton Pedant - Funny!  



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