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No, No, No. I'm deadly serious.

Forget Stonehenge as it stands - it's false anyway. Yes restore it for all I care, but let folks wander around it afterwards. I **love** the drive-thru monument comaprison, that's exactly what it is now. Disney with rocks.

Just imagine, though. A 10 mile approach to the fully reconstructed version across Salisbury Plain passing a different evolution of the monument every mile or so!!

I'd make that walk!

actually that would be pretty cool. In the future visitor centre (based in London for convenience) there'll be a virtual reality exhibit (with treadmill) so you'll be able to do exactly that.

Anyway, if they make you walk a mile to stonehenge and then you can't even get near the stones, well, I don't think most people you see visiting now are going to bother, and english heritage are going to lose a lot of money.

We drove past it at stupid o'clock Sunday morning and there were at least two people in there amongst the stones. I hear you can arrange it in advance and stump up some cash. I want to go. It's not the same if you can't get near the stones (not that you want millions dropping their ice-lolly sticks round it). I don't like to think of it being disneyfied, it's bad enough as it is. Or does Stonehenge have to be the sacrificial honeypot site, destined to be abused forever.