I heard Julian on Johnnie Walker promoting TMA as I sat in commuter traffic up the A3 and thought if he's so enthusiastic about this there must be something to it. Anyway TMA was stored away as a good idea for a b'day/xmas present and lo and behold a year later, read the book and started diverting family holidays/weekends to the west. I think that year we thoroughly 'did' Avebury, Silbury, Devils Den etc, and Castlerigg in the Lake District. Have to say its all been down hill since then but we did set the bar quite high early on. Having to save Ireland, Lewis, Orkney for a couple of years whilst the kids still want 'family' holidays.

For me discovering the smaller sites was the light bulb moment, tracking them down and then having them to yourselves. Up until then, a walk in the country was a pay and display car park in a Forestry Commission pine forest with a couple of thousand other 'townies'.
I've since done an ALevel Archaeology, a certificate at Exeter and signing up for a diploma at Leicester.
Thanks Julian.