Around the World: Salisbury, Stonehenge & Tooting

The first day that we were in Southampton we decided to go to Salisbury and Stonehenge which is only a half an hour train ride. We walked around Salisbury and went to see the Cathedral and then decided to do a Stonehenge tour. The tour was on a double decker bus and pointed out interesting sights along the way. We went through a lot of small villages and saw a lot of the countryside on our drive there and back. It’s always a bit surreal seeing things like Stonehenge up close after studying them in books so much. The first time I had ever seen a picture of Stonehenge was one of my Grandparents when they visited the site when they were in England. Ever since seeing the picture I always wanted to visit it and it was definitely worth it and also nice knowing that they had been there too. We stayed there for about an hour before catching the bus back to Salisbury and then the train back to Southampton.

The second day in Southampton we decided to go to a suburb of London called Tooting where my Great-Grandparents(on Grandpa Hatch's side) lived and got married. It was really neat seeing where they lived even though it would have changed so much since then. We spent about 3 hours in Tooting walking around and then decided to catch our train back to Southampton. Next time we are in this area I would like to try to go into the church and see if I can find some records on Grandpa’s parents..or maybe just try to find them on ancestry.com...maybe a summer project Grandpa?