The English Heritage pass is the best deal we found in England. For fifty-eight pounds and a few pence
we bought a dual senior pass that saved us over six hundred pounds . . . nearly
$1000 dollars. We started at the
beginning, Stonehenge, and traveled through history visiting 62 sites up
through the Cold War.
Many of the sites are what a friend calls “rubble,” ruined
castles, abbeys, priories and such.
She forgets that we are Americans and as our British friends remind us,
what we call history they call current events. With a little imagination and the wonderful English Heritage
audio guides, even the rubble comes to life.
Hopping from site to site brought us to places that many English
natives haven’t visited. We slowly
began to piece together the history of England: the Romans, Saxons, Normans,
the kings and queens, the Civil War and, always in the background, the
importance of religion. Each day brought new surprises and "ah-ha" moments. And thousands of photos.
