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I'm in an apartment in Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It's 3am and I can't sleep so I thought I would finally catch on on the blogging that has not occurred in the last 6 days.
Well, I did it. I stood among the ancient Stones of Callanish, one of the oldest of all the circles. I got to the Outer Hebrides, and fulfilled a promise I had to to myself when I was about 25, that one day I would go. I saw them for three days, in all light, morning, noon, dusk and midnight, in sun and rain and rainbow and moonlight. They were everything I had hoped they would be, and the area was even better. The first circle (2700BC, older then Stonehenge) is the best, and unique. It has a central stone, an circle, an avenue and a burial mound, and that's not normal. Later on it was a Bronze Age town and then the site was left to be buried under meters of peat, much of which was only excavate recently. As many of thirteen other circles also stand in the area within 5k of the main site, but only a few are impressive, the rest being rings of smaller stones. I went to five others. Having done all this, I had finished. This was the most outward step of my trip, and everything after it felt like a contraction to the centre, and also, like a random addition onto the last momemt of a planned schedule. I am glad I am in KL, with Louise, 6 days later. It's time to go. I don't have any bucket list items of this type, any more. There are plenty of things I want to do, but there isn't a single place that I know I must see, which I have not already seen before. Callanish was it. And it's done. I was extremely happy for the two days I was there. I even kissed a few stones... Comments are closed.
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