Monday 3rd August pm Our own walk with tour guide Jannie started at the Cathedral and wended it's way around the streets past the house of Edward Heath, past Mompession House built in 1701 for a wealthy merchant. The High Street Gate which was erected in 1327 because of the trouble between clergy and citizens including armed robbery. Originally the gate had a portcullis but now just a great door. On we went and passed The Old Bookshop which was a rambling...

Monday 3rd August late am The Wessex Gallery After the exhibition we visited the main museum where they had a timeline exhibition. This was a journey back in time in 10 stages dating from 1220AD at Old Sarum back through Early Medieval at Warminster 9th century, Roman 3rd Century, Iron Age 1st Century, Bronze Age 1500-700BC, Late Neolithic, The Amesbury Archer 2400BC, Stonehenge 3000BC, Early Neolithic 4000BC and Palaeolithic 59,000 years ago. The whole e...

Monday 3rd August - Turner Exhibition We went to Cafe Rouge for breakfast where we got a two for one deal because we went for dinner last night and they gave us a voucher to use. Good coffee and lovely breaky. We were going to go on an organised walk but because we have been here for three days and have walked most of the streets decided to do our own walk and purchased a £1 guide with all of the famous buildings in it. That's for this afternoon now as w...

Sunday 2nd August - Old Sarum As Jannie had read the book by Edward Rutherford called Sarum she really wanted to put that on the to do list prior to leaving New Zealand. So we got off the bus on our way back from Stonehenge at the appropriate stop and walked slowly up the hill the Sarum Castle. I had no idea of what to expect. We crossed the long bridge over the very deep moat surrounding the whole thing. Paid with our English Heritage cards and headed off t...

Saturday 1st August Salisbury We packed up and started off on our drive from Maidstone to Salisbury. Most of the trip was on motorways but part of the A30 was being extended and although we had three lanes going our way the car in front of us only had about 600mm on either side before going into the adjacent lane. You had to concentrate somewhat as even at 50 mph it was somewhat concerning as the three lanes were packed with cars, trucks and a few caravans...