I Know Those Rocks!

An earlier trip that I took to England included a swing through Avebury. This was something I found to be mildly thrilling because I was under the impression that an episode of Doctor Who was filmed there.

We arrived just as a hard summer rainstorm was starting up, so, after a few minutes of sitting in the car, we ran into a gift shop (specializing in crunchy druid art), then a pub (specializing in crabby locals who detest the sort of people who would stop by to purchase crunchy druid art), then the car again when we realized that the rain was not going to let up.

Ten minutes after we drove off, the rain let up.

So anyway, I was still sort of happy to have knocked something interesting off of my Doctor Who tourist checklist, and this was one of the happy brags that I had with my Doctor Who friends when I got home.

Until about a year later, when I found out that I was completely wrong. The episode in question had been filmed someplace else.

Bah.

So driving around on this trip, I was given the option of stopping to see the Rollright Stones. And look at them we did.


I kept my mouth shut concerning any Whoish connections, and just concentrated on the fact of a stone circle, which is quite interesting in and of itself. When I came home, I hit my research materials.

Success!