British Museum, London
7 January 2020
We're flying home tomorrow. Here some some photos that didn't fit into the other blog posts.
Cloud 9 Cycles, Bloomsbury: This ball of inner tubes is the only positive thing I have to say about this store. There were two employees, both young men, and they completely ignored me. Never assume that a middle-aged woman in a winter coat doesn't have two decades of road cycling under there. That I was looking up at wheelsets was a good indication that I did, indeed, know something.
The lighting was bad in the Building Centre, where there's an exhibit on London's infrastructure and city planning. We had fun trying to identify landmarks on this three-dimensional model of central London.
Viewed from the east, where the Thames drains to the sea:
London as seen from the north:
From the west:
And from the south:
A puffer fish in the King's Collection at the British Museum:
Frankish (I think) glass from the King's Collection:
Ancient Egyptian (I think) glass from the King's Collection:
Seven Dials, Covent Garden, at night:
St Pancras Rail Station:
St Pancras as seen from the pub across the street:
I was going for quintessential tourist London here: St Pancras, a pub, and the iconic, red London buses:
Construction cranes, decorated with lights, as seen from Oxford Street at twilight:
A sun made of lights at the exit of the British Museum's Troy exhibit:
A residential building on Torrington Street, Bloomsbury, where, presumably, one can live in a round room as if it were in a turret:
And that's a wrap. Bye, London. See ya when I see ya.
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