June 11, 2012
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(written on 18 February 2013)
It was a wonderful weekend in London, but unfortunately the weather did not really cooperate. It was quite nice on Saturday afternoon during my bike ride, but today was just fairly miserable, with rain coming down steadily. Then again, this is England and not a remote Caribbean island so what is one to expect? There are enough indoor activities to be done here anyway and that is exactly what I did this morning, on the last day of my weekend here, as I went to the British Museum. It is without exception always nice to visit the building and its hypnotising Great Court designed by Sir Norman Foster, but today I did just a bit more than just shelter from the rain under the fantastic roof over the Great Court, I actually went into the museum.
The picture shows a group of people reflected in the glass that protects the Rosetta Stone, quite possibly the museum's most valuable item. The Rosetta Stone was elementary in deciphering the Egyptian Hieroglyphs and allowed us a much better view of Ancient Egypt. It's definitely the item that attracts most attention in the British Museum, as it seems to be having tourists around it all the time, flashing away with their pocket cameras. It makes for a great photo opportunity for me though (sans flash) so I was grateful for that.
An underground train took me back to Piccadilly Circus (and another T-shirt bought in the Superdry super store...) and from there I walked back to Victoria station from where a train took me back to Gatwick Airport... and a subsequent plane took me back to Amsterdam. A wonderful weekend in the British capital was history once more!
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