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Day 4 - with pictures!
Mar. 24th, 2006 10:06 pm(I better get crackin' on my recap of my vacation, or I may forget something!)
Day 4 was mostly given over to a trip![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shipbrook wanted to make - to the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. We took the Tube and then hopped on a double decker bus to get there (by the way, it's pretty disconcerting when you're on the steps going to the second level of the bus and the bus starts moving!). If you want to find out his version of our visit, go here. While he was doing some research, I wandered over to the Queen's House; then I hiked up the hill to see the Royal Observatory and the Prime Meridian - oooh, ahhh!
I wandered off through the nearby park and found a marker that indicates the remains of what they think was the oak tree that Elizabeth I stood under (I think that's the story?) when she learned she was queen. There's still a stump left, see?
At the park I also noticed how well-behaved British dogs are. They follow along after their humans, some of them (the dogs that is) don't need leashes!
shipbrook was pretty bummed out that his research plans didn't go as he had hoped. We knew that the British Museum was open late that night, so we headed off in that direction. It was tricky to find from the Tub station we got off at, but we found it, an immense building. The library was breathtaking. I could never get any studying done, though shipbrook pointed out where you could tell some of the books were fake. Infidel. We started off in the Egyptian galleries, and I was blown away with the sheer quantity of items they had. It made me almost wonder if there's anything left in Egypt? I especially liked the giant cases filled with mummy cases! I loved how colorful they were, and a couple of them were open so that you could see the painted insides.
Once again we got a bit turned around, but eventually found the Tube station and went back to our neighborhood. We had dinner at our favorite Indian place. A bit of a cop-out, but they had excellent food and the day had been extra long.
This was another place where we got "Art Overload". Huge Babylonian winged bulls; the Elgian Marbles; so many beautiful Greek sculptures! Eventually we grew tired and hungry, and the museum was about to kick us out anyway, so we left. It seemed like we barely scratched the surface of their collection (couldn't get to the medieval stuff!) so we vowed to come back before we left. I combed the bookstore but didn't see anything I had to have. He insisted that I get a set of tiny canopic jar replicas though.
Day 4 was mostly given over to a trip
shipbrook wanted to make - to the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. We took the Tube and then hopped on a double decker bus to get there (by the way, it's pretty disconcerting when you're on the steps going to the second level of the bus and the bus starts moving!). If you want to find out his version of our visit, go here. While he was doing some research, I wandered over to the Queen's House; then I hiked up the hill to see the Royal Observatory and the Prime Meridian - oooh, ahhh! |
Prime Meridian in all its glory |
I wandered off through the nearby park and found a marker that indicates the remains of what they think was the oak tree that Elizabeth I stood under (I think that's the story?) when she learned she was queen. There's still a stump left, see?
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Elizabeth oak |
At the park I also noticed how well-behaved British dogs are. They follow along after their humans, some of them (the dogs that is) don't need leashes!
shipbrook was pretty bummed out that his research plans didn't go as he had hoped. We knew that the British Museum was open late that night, so we headed off in that direction. It was tricky to find from the Tub station we got off at, but we found it, an immense building. The library was breathtaking. I could never get any studying done, though shipbrook pointed out where you could tell some of the books were fake. Infidel. We started off in the Egyptian galleries, and I was blown away with the sheer quantity of items they had. It made me almost wonder if there's anything left in Egypt? I especially liked the giant cases filled with mummy cases! I loved how colorful they were, and a couple of them were open so that you could see the painted insides.  |
Case full o' mummy cases! |
Once again we got a bit turned around, but eventually found the Tube station and went back to our neighborhood. We had dinner at our favorite Indian place. A bit of a cop-out, but they had excellent food and the day had been extra long.
This was another place where we got "Art Overload". Huge Babylonian winged bulls; the Elgian Marbles; so many beautiful Greek sculptures! Eventually we grew tired and hungry, and the museum was about to kick us out anyway, so we left. It seemed like we barely scratched the surface of their collection (couldn't get to the medieval stuff!) so we vowed to come back before we left. I combed the bookstore but didn't see anything I had to have. He insisted that I get a set of tiny canopic jar replicas though.
