London Trip - Day 3

On Monday we took another London Walk, this time highlights of the British Museum. We took the tube to Holborn to hook up with the group, which turned out to be led by the same guide as Sunday, Tom. We walked up to the museum, and saw the courtyard, the Rosetta Stone, bits of Assyrian and Greek sculpture, the Elgin Marbles, and the Bog Man.

You could easily spend a lifetime in the British Museum. Our 2-hour tour did not do it justice. I hope to go back and spend more time there someday.

The entrance to the British Museum.

The Reading Room and part of the skylight over the courtyard. Elaine and I went into the Reading Room after the tour. It's a spectacular space.

An Assyrian statue of a bull/man.

Part of the pediment of the Elgin Marbles.

When we left the museum we walked up to Covent Gardens for lunch. I had one of the worst pizzas I've ever had. From there we walked to Leicester Square. My wife Penny had asked me to walk by 84 Charing Cross Rd, setting of a book and movie she enjoyed, to see what was there now. Alas, the building is gone. It and 82 were apparently torn down and replaced by a double-width building.

Lots of pedicabs around Covent Garden, Leicester Square, and Piccadilly Circus. Most were uprights, but I saw two recumbent pedicabs. This is one.

For Penny - a homeopathic pharmacy.

This wizard (witch?) cow was in Leicester Square.

We then took the tube to Knightsbridge to visit the infamous Harrods department store. After overdosing on an excess of materialism and consumption (bananas in the food department were 8 pounds per kilo!), we walked up to Hyde Park and sat for awhile to recover. Dinner that evening at a Greek restaurant, then stopped at the Tesco grocery store to buy bananas for breakfast, for a lot less than 8 pounds per kilo.

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