Well we went to bed last night with British television reporting that the US State Department was going to issue "a travelers warning" for US citizens in Europe ... and the news that there was going to be a union strike on the London transit system from Sunday evening thru Monday evening ... neither of these bits of news were something we wanted to hear ...
Of course there's nothing we can do about either one but coupled with a rainy forecast it was just a little much.
This morning we woke to skies that were cloudy but not pouring, the terror threat had been reduced to a nebulous warning to be careful (well duh!!) and no certainty on what transit lines would be effected BUT it looked like what we need may be OK.
We rode the train down to London central to visit
The British Museum.
The ride was not all that bad with only one train transfer and much much less crowded than yesterday.
The museum is
HUGE!!! The brochures recommend 3 days to explore ... we figured we were good for 4 hours ... maybe ... We explored Egyptian, Iran, Europe, Assyrian, and several other ancient exhibits and we saw the
Rosetta Stone.
Pretty cool!!! I'll post just a few pics here ... there are many more in the ever growing gallery of this trip.
The front door ...
Mummies ...
The Rosetta Stone ...
Some really huge artifacts ...
It's a REALLY BIG place ...
So after something less than four hours ... fairly well spent ... we decided to seek out a friendly spot ... we walked outside to fairly calm clearing weather and picked up a train to
Piccadilly Circus . Which is pretty much in the center of London ...
and got directions to an almost "sacred" spot in London ...
The Republic Of Texas Embassy .... well it's a bar/restaurant but it sure FELT like an embassy!!
The beer was cold the food was good the environment was friendly and the waiter was a TCU graduate (from Canada but he had at least been in Texas long enough not to find our accents funny) ... it was good for the soul!!
We walked down to
Trafalgar Square ... and boarded a train for the guest house ... smiles on our nacho fed faces ,,,
Big Ben from Trafalgar Square ...
So tomorrow morning early we INTEND to head into London to catch a train out to Windsor Castle, visit the castle then return back to the guest house, change clothes and then BACK into London to see the play
WICKED.
We HOPE the transit strike cooperates ...
