After breakfast at Cafetino on Thursday, we headed out for a final very full day.
First stop: the British Museum, where we focused mostly on the Egyptian and Greek exhibits, with a bit of Assyria in between. Not surprisingly, there was a whole crowd of schoolchildren in the mummy exhibit. š
After lunch and the gift shop (I had spotted a stuffed mummy that looked perfect for Little R š ), I realized I really didn’t want to leave without seeing the Anglo-Saxon exhibit!
Then we found our way to the Charles Dickens Museum on Doughty Street, in the house where he lived during the late 1830s.
Doesn’t that silhouette look like Marley’s ghost?
We walked from there to the British Library to see illuminated Bibles, original music written by Bach and others, and the somewhat underwhelming Magna Carta exhibit š (no photos allowed). Miss A wanted to visit a certain “pop-up shop” in Camden Market (it was only open for a day or two), so we got on the Tube once again.
It took quite a bit of walking around the market before she finally spotted the shop she wanted – we’d almost given up!
After shopping, we bought fish and chips from a food vendor and figured out what to do next. I had wanted to take the canal boat tour in Little Venice, but it was too late in the day and we were too tired to walk the canal (someday I hope I can go there, as it looks like a lovely spot!). So we decided to do the Thames boat cruise from the Tower to Westminster Bridge (it was included in our London Pass). We had to wait in line on our sore feet for a bit, but it was lovely to see London from the river. A tour guide provided a humorous commentary on the various sights. Passing a barge carrying garbage, he remarked that it would be shipped downriver to Essex, “Which solves two problems: what to do about London’s rubbish, and what to do about Essex.” š
It proved to be the perfect way to end the day and our trip.Ā ā„
