nigelswift wrote:
Well personally, although we can all criticise certain aspects of what they're doing I think they're on the right track given the realities of what they're faced with and that letter was completely out of order. Having a picnic with no-one else around was very nice but now there are a million visitors a year such reminiscences are completely irrelevant and unhelpful.
I don't believe they are irrelevant at all. I'm from the era where the henge was still in comparative solitude and much as it was probably meant to be and I'm 100% positive we enjoyed the freedom of being able to walk amongst it all. It WILL be like Disneyland now, something you were very much against when the current Avebury thread was being heavily discussed.As Mustard said it IS a cash cow and just about anything goes now to keep it that way. It is no longer an attraction to me because I've seen the best of it but of course a gold-mine for all the tourist companies. I wonder how it would fair without them? Maybe the visitor numbers should be reduced so that those that do come along can have more time and more freedom to move around it. The chances of that happening...ZERO! Money comes first.
