Our stop in London and the British Museum

Our stop in London and the British Museum
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We landed in Gatwick, spent an hour and a half in line for customs then took the train to Farringdon station near our hotel. It's a nice part of the city and I was tempted to take a photo of every street that I saw. Lots of Victorian industrial buildings and the houses for the workers.

Our hotel was about a mile from the British Museum and that seemed like a good place go, if only for four sleep deprived people to stay awake. The Museum however, exceeded all of our expectations.



It seems that the British Museum intended from it's beginnings to be the holder of as many of the great treasures of the worlds civilizations as it could. Since it got its start in the days of the empire, there was much treasure to be had. I got to see clay tablets with some of the worlds oldest writing, the Rosetta Stone, scores of mummies and lots of Greek and Roman statues. What totally awed me though, was the size of many of their artifacts. So many pieces were just frickin' huge.

If you're planning a trip to London, this is absolutely worth a day. In our 3 hours, we only saw the Mesopotamian and Egyptian galleries and the Parthenon sculptures (yes, they took those too). I can't wait to go back, I want to see what they got from the rest of their empire.