Busy, busy

We've been pretty busy showing our visitor K around town. On Sunday, we took her to the British Museum, despite the fact that she's not a big fan of museums. We kept it brief. The Great Court itself is worth seeing. And then we zoomed around the Egyptian area to take in the Rosetta stone and the big giant Egyptian heads. We took her to see the Elgin Marbles. The Elgin Marbles are basically bits and pieces from the frieze around the Parthenon in Athens (not to be confused with the one from Nashville). The British have big chunks of torso and legs and panels. If you want to see the heads, you have to go Copenhagen. When the Turks held Greece and accidentally (on purpose?) blew up the Parthenon when they were using it as a munitions depot - the Danes came in afterwards and knocked off all the heads as souvenirs. The British - always being greater respecters of history - took the panels as a whole where they could. Now the Greeks want the whole thing back. I think that the heads should be returned to the torsos, so we can see it as a whole in the British museum.


The British got a head


Great Court at the British Museum

We also went to Covent Garden market. But we took the long way, because we failed to bring a map. K bought a hat and some nice souvenirs in the Transport for London museum shop (the museum itself is currently closed for refurbishment).

Then dinner in Stockwell at the Portugese restaurant. Then home to play the game based on the Underground map that I had bought that day. It's very educational - a great way to find out about different things to see and do in London and to learn the Underground lines - and you can do mean things to other people by closing their stations and making them go the other way. Just like real life.