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You see, there’s two stages in getting the Finnish driver’s license. The first bit is the main driving school part, after which you get a temporary license that expires in two years. In order to get the permanent license, you need to complete this couple hours’ worth of ‘economical city driving’ class and a one-day class in how to manage your car safely or something, I’m not really sure what exactly. So anyway, it’s been nearly two years and I still haven’t done the second stage, for numerous and varied reasons. One being that I hate driving in this country, another that I hate the driving culture that I’m in, another that I hate that modern car manufacturers COULD easily build cheap hydrogen or hybrid cars or whatever, but they don’t, and so on and so forth. In short, all of this has given me so much head-ache that I’ve just pushed finishing my license more and more into “the distant future”, until now. I’ve got my first driving lesson in two years tomorrow morning and I’m absolutely terrified. But we shall see, as they say, what happens.

I’m really sad to say that Stonehenge is not worth visiting at all. Firstly because Stonehenge is located on a tiny little hill between two major highways. Yeah, there goes the atmosphere. Secondly, it has a really wide circle of forbidden-to-enter-area around it (presumably to keep every eejit from stealing bits of it etc), so you can’t really even look at it properly. And there are tons and tons and TONS of tourists, every single hour of every single day. And of course you enter the hill-site through this little tunnel, which has a rubbish merchandise shop at the beginning. I mean jeez, cups and baseball caps and pens and all the rest of touristy shite nobody really needs. ARGH. I always thought Stonehenge was this “bastion of the pagan world”, something majestic and beautiful to behold and all that new agey jazz, but nowadays it’s just as commercialised as your average rid-stupid-tourists-of-their-cash-type place. But of course, I did visit three years ago, so maybe they’ve, y’know, built extra circle roads and gotten rid of the awful merchandise… Tsh, yeah right. So if you want to keep imagining Stonehenge as something beautiful & pagan and all that, don’t visit. Ever.