Friday, July 31, 2009

A Brief History Lesson


London National Museum

Today Vin and I started the day like most of the others we have been here with coffee and a pastry at a cafe. One thing that is cool here is that most of the cafes and restaurants have tables outside, so it is nice to have a coffee in the morning and kind of just people watch for a little while. There are also a lot of different stands on the streets. They sell anything from fresh breads and pastries, to fruits, vegetables and seafood.
Then we ventured to the London National Museum and saw all kind of interesting artifacts from ancient cultures like the Egyptians (Meyer, you would have loved it), Japanese, Greeks and Romans. They actually have the Rosetta Stone here, which was definitely something to see. After studying it for a little bit I can read hieroglyphics now, haha. We walked around in there for a couple hours and saw some pretty cool exhibits. One funny thing was, they have an exhibit on the history of money and there was an old cash register that was made in Dayton, OH. That was about all for the day, tonight I think we are going to get some Indian food for dinner and go out to some pubs. It should be fun seeing as how I have been over for almost a week and haven't been inside a proper pub yet (the oldest one when we were in Nottingham doesn't count that was at like three or four in the afternoon). That's all for now enjoy some of the pictures from the museum!



Rosetta Stone



A statue and a sarcophagus


Yeah that's a mummy in there



The cash register from Dayton


Inside the museum
(blue skies a rare sight in london)

1 comment:

  1. Hey nice mummy pics! That Rosetta Stone is bad azz. Potential fireplace pics?

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