Land of Oz

Halloween

I just saw an article about the 10 best places to spend Halloween. One place that wasn't mentioned was Stonehenge. It's probably changed a bunch now, but back in the early 80s (probably 1981 since Halloween was Friday night) when I was stationed at RAF Upper Heyford, I spent the evening and early hours of the day around Stonehenge and Avebury. I started out at Stonehenge, but it was too crowded and hard to approach and I ended up in the village of Avebury later than night (early morning) completely by accident.

One couldn't have asked for a better night (as I remember it anyway). It was pretty clear with a large moon and scattered clouds that the wind pushed across the sky. There was a little bit of ground fog that would come and go as well. It was fairly cool. I found a place to park in Avebury that gave me a good view of the area from the seat of my VW Thing. I had a thermos of hot tea and BBC was playing very good music over the radio. Nothing that I'd consider supernatural happened, but it was a very neat way to spend all Hallow's Eve. The only strange bit was that I took an entire roll of film and absolutely nothing came out when it was developed. That was the only time that ever happened with my Canon EF in over 20 years. I might expect a shot or two to not come out, but not everyone. I took an assortment of long exposures of the countryside and also of car lights moving along the various roads.

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