While much as been destroyed through two world wars there are whole cities which are relatively ancient and *fine*.
Yeah! I tend to find it's so different energy wise too. The Indigenous Australians have rich history in the land, of course, but much of it is in the form of artwork upon rocks etc. or leftover tools from when they more actively flint-knapped and so on, so it's not like, architectural history in the same sense, and we're not really raised to experience that history of ecosystem and appreciate it in the same way. So to walk somewhere like, for example, Skara Brae, that has essentially remained for thousands of years (I mean, buried and then unburied) was pretty amazing. Or to walk through places in Chichester and know that historical buildings still last it's...really a unique experience for me?
But then I also liked in Wales seeing the contemporary standing stones. We saw 'historic' standing stones too, but the idea that people are continuing that sort of history into contemporary times was pretty cool.
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Date: 2019-05-24 09:44 am (UTC)Yeah! I tend to find it's so different energy wise too. The Indigenous Australians have rich history in the land, of course, but much of it is in the form of artwork upon rocks etc. or leftover tools from when they more actively flint-knapped and so on, so it's not like, architectural history in the same sense, and we're not really raised to experience that history of ecosystem and appreciate it in the same way. So to walk somewhere like, for example, Skara Brae, that has essentially remained for thousands of years (I mean, buried and then unburied) was pretty amazing. Or to walk through places in Chichester and know that historical buildings still last it's...really a unique experience for me?
But then I also liked in Wales seeing the contemporary standing stones. We saw 'historic' standing stones too, but the idea that people are continuing that sort of history into contemporary times was pretty cool.