Mind the Gap
Saturday I caught a ride into a suburb of London then took the tube into London. I should remind you that I’m traveling with ENGINEERS. As such, we spent 2 full, boring hours looking at clocks at the Royal Observatory. The only cool thing is that this is where GMT is. You know, in Greenwich. Where the time starts. Here’s me straddling the two hemispheres:
Next, 3 trains later, I convinced the guys to go to the British Museum. If you’re in London, I DEFINITELY recommend this. They have a HUGE exhibit for Greece and Rome (including parts of the Parthenon!), and in this area was the actual, real-life Rosetta Stone!
I also loved the mummies. Here is an incredible mummy of an old woman who was unwrapped. You can see her face is perfectly preserved and her fingernails were still totally intact!
Next we got lost for about an hour trying to find Abbey Rd. You know, the actual one where the Beatles’ studio was (and still is). The one seen here. One of my coworkers took this picture of me unknowingly walking JUST like a Beatle.
Take notice of the 3 boys there in the foreground. Yes, that’s right, those are fine specimens of 20-somethings from the US. Standing in the middle of the street. Nearly getting run over. For about 15 minutes trying to recreate the cover.
Next we went to the Hard Rock Cafe. Wouldn’t normally go here on vacation, but I was ready for American food, listening to loud American (and Canadian! Barenaked Ladies!) music… AND, they have a vault FULL of music stuff from famous people that you can ACTUALLY TOUCH. They had Jimmy Hendrix’s guitar, John Lennon’s wire rim glasses, the ACTUAL piece of paper where he wrote Imagine, Kurt Cobain’s guitar and glasses, all kinds of stuff! But what I chose to take a picture with: Miles Davis’ trumpet from Bitches Brew. MILES DAVIS’ TRUMPET!
On the way back to the car on the tube I managed to step in some idiot college kid’s puke. At 9pm. Right before he almost stumbled backwards on to the train track. Mind the puke! (sorry, no picture of that) Next post will be about my AWESOME solo trip to Salisbury. (and no, I didn’t eat any steak while I was there. :-) )
