Yes, we did drive by it, albeit kind-of quickly. It was a long day, and we were all pretty tired by then, so we didn’t really stop. We did get to see it from a distance, though — it’s pretty impressive! And very strange. I do so very much want to know what’s behind all of these artifacts.

I’m also pretty surprised that structures like the White Horse have survived for thousands of years. Unlike giant standing stones, it’s just basically a bunch of sod dug out of a hillside — without constant maintenance, the sod will tend to creep back in over the horse outlines over time. You’d think that in all this time, someone would have given up on tending it, and it would have been lost. I suppose that we’ve lost many more such artifacts than we have left, but it’s still impressive that we have any left.

That feeling of standing among the stones – that is exactly what it felt like standing among the circles of stones in Orkney.

Did you see the chalk horse?