Horse Country

In England, if you wake up on a Saturday to any amount of sunshine, you pile the kids in the car and go somewhere. Anywhere. We didn't take the helicoptor ride, so we only had this distorted shot (unlike below), but Saturday we went to White Horse Hill, near Uffington.
The drive was magnificent (even if we did get turned around a few times), and it was a lovely day out. We climbed right up to the top, and had some lunch at the ruins of Uffington Castle, an Iron Age fortification. The White Horse is significant for two reasons: it's the only English chalk figure that scientists accept as being prehistoric (about 3000 years old), and as you can see from my top shot, it's basically indiscernible except from the air. So why was prehistoric man creating huge images that could only be seen from above? Who knows, who cares. We enjoyed it.




And we're enjoying spring.