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	June 17th, 2009 - 07:55 pm

If it's not already on your travel plans due to Stonehenge, you'll probably want to go to Salisbury. Salisbury Cathedral has one of the best preserved original copies of the Magna Carta still extant, down in their crypt (along with a copy of Boethius's Consolations with notes in the margins made by Chaucer). My Dad and I discovered it completely by accident when we went there during a trip to England a few years ago. I assume they show it on tours, but if they don't, then as of 2004 the cathedral was serving coffee and tea down in the chamber it's displayed in after Sunday morning services.

Avebury, which is very close to Salisbury by car, is also an awesome place to visit either before or after seeing Stonehange. There's a second, older stone circle there, made of unfinished rocks, and since the circle encloses most of the town, you can walk right up to them and touch them, provided you stay out of people's back yards and latch pasture gates behind you so the sheep can't get out. There's also a large earthworks ring (a wall and a ditch) surrounding the town, and if you climb up on top of it, you can see that the high alter in the town's church is exactly in the same location that the central alter-stone in the henge would have been.

Spare me your old-school bra-burning feminism; I wear bras for my benefit

I'm a large A cup/small B cup and I'm uncomfortable without a bra most of the time (not just psychologically uncomfortable in the "oh God, people can see my nipples through my shirt" way, but physically uncomfortable). I don't know how women with C or D cup-sized breasts who don't wear bras do it.

Underwire is my friend as a small-breasted woman, though. Good padded, push-up bras all have it, and those are the only way I ever have any cleavage (on the other hand, if I ever want to cosplay a male character, I wouldn't have to resort to gauze and tape to do it).