England: Stonehenge

So, I have a few minutes rest and I decided to give a small update on this blog (since I forgot the pics of LaStrada at home). Anyhow, I went to England about to months ago. On my way there I stopped by to visit a few friends of mine, Rocio, Omar and Berna. Rocio and Omar live in Southampton with their daughter, Natalia. It was really cool to see them after almost two years. Rocio has been my friend since pretty much the beginning of my undergrad and she helped me a lot everytime I went back to Mexico to visit after I moved out. Well, she is now doing her PhD in the university of Southampton, I believe in Computer Security. When I arrived there she and her husband waited for me with home made pasta (proudly cooked by Omar) and mexican beer. After a few hours of just making fun of the pictures of a wedding of two dear friends of ours (Sergio and Gwendy), and a lot of talking we went to bed rather early since we would went to Stonehenge the day after,

This is Natalia, their daughter, cheerful little girl who causes havoc and mayhem wherever she goes, oh! and whom speaks english with a perfect british accent, go figure!,


And these are my friends on our way to Stonehenge,


Soon after we arrived we got ourselves some audio guides which thankfully were for free (well, sort of since there was an entrance fee)


And thank heavens that they were for free because they didnt have a lot of information to be honest. They kept saying stuff like "why the stones are here?, we do not know", "who brought them?, will always be a mistery", "why were they laid out like this? has been lost in history" and crap like that. So I am thankful I didnt have to pay for it.


The following image might be disturbing for some. This is one of those mexican weirdities, it's El Santo. He is like the Elvis Presley of the US, the Godzilla of Japan, the Schwarzenegger of Austria .... well not exactly but a very famous wrestling figure of the 60's



This is how El Santo sees things,


Oh right, I forgot, Stonehenge, here you go, on the right has been filtered with a polarizer, hence the effect,



And this is me with my dear friend. She said they will try to come visit me some time soon, I hope they do as it was a lot of fun to meet them again,





Oh right, another Mexican weirdity,


And finally, we all said goodbye to Stonehenge,





After that we headed to a nice little town not far from there, but which name I already forgot, damn! I'm old.




This is a classic,

The Wait is always the hard part,

And of course we couldnt miss the cathedral,



Oh yeah, but the brits also have their share of weirdness, check the following pics,


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And finally a few snapshots of the funny Natalia, I hope you like them,




And a last one from my dear friend,


Hope you liked the pics.