Avesbury, Stonehenge, and 40 miles in the wrong direction

Well today has being quite an adventure to say the least. We started out to Avesbury to see the standing stones which was a remarkable site. We spent about and hour walking around the small village and the stones trying to find one of them that was supposed to vibrate....which was quite unsucessful...I think its a bunch of B.S. myself. From there its only about and hour drive to Stonehenge which was completely packed and they charge you know to park in the parking lot, although you get reimbursed once you purchase a admission ticket. Thier way of stopping people parking and walking to the fence to take pictures. Good news though Megan and I got in with student price. I used my student card from 2003 and Megan didn't even have one so we only spent £8.00 gettin gin plus out £2 back. We took a ton of great photos and moved on to Salisbury where the troubles started.

Once there the streets are quite confusing to navagate around so we got lost a few times and then our car decided to give us attitude. It was jumping and shaking mo matter what gear it was in and started losing some power. We drove around in Circles for a while looking at the Cathedral until we decided we had better find a petrol station to so we could check ther car over. Funny enough we ended up accidently driving to the town where Bill was staying that night. We had a good look at the car and a man who worked at the Esso even came over to have a look and try and help us. We couldn't find anything wrong so we started it up and took it for a quick run and it was back to normal. We tried waiting around for Bill and family to arrive but we hadn't told them that we would be stopping by and we had no idea what time they were arriving so when it got to 8:00 we decided to make the 2 hour (plus) drive back to bristol the long way. We decided to take the main highways with so we only had 2 turnoffs to make so it would be easier in the rain and dark. On the first turning I knew I had to head north on thie A358 so at the roundabout I did just that. Although signs here are not posted with compass directions on them only the closet big city in that direction. My geography of some areas here are not up to par and I didn't realise that the road curved many times and then we were heading south until we saw a sign saying "Welcome to Devon" which was heading back south. WE were within 30 miles of the english channel and about 80 miles from bristol...... Great. So we realised the mistake and turned around. The most annoying part was if I had gone one more exit on the roundabout that was the one wanted. Oh well live and learn. We laughed all the way back to Bristol about it and ended up back home just after 11:15. It was a day we won't forget.