Sucked it up and off we went! Had 2 wrestle with our heavy, oversized bags (6 altogether) down 6 flights of tiny London stairs as this hostel doesn't have a lift! Lol...no injuries to report just to say that it is sooooo much easier to go down then up!
Dropped four of our six bags off at the train station before tubing it to the British Museum. Very cool building aesthetically ... Inside it is humongous. As we were on a tight time schedule we decided to look for the top ten things the museum had to offer...as the map suggested ... We didnt make it up!!
We were lucky enough to see the gold medals the Olympians will be awarded - I enjoyed that... Other than that we strolled thru the museum on a mission. I thought it would be a great place to take ur class on a field trip. Give them a map with the things they need to find and a camera to prove they found it and away they go... Would keep them entertained for hours...leaving the teachers free to .... ( il let u fill in the rest ; ) hehe
Seen some cool things ... Heidi said they were so I guess they must have been:
- a stone from back in the day that tells us how to decipher another language??
- plenty of mummies and their tombs
- lots of old jars and clay pots ( fun times)
- and the stone friezes from the real parthenon in Greece ( H said "ud b real angry if u were a Greek " and this man overheard her and he said " we are" )
Finally that was done with and we could move on to more exciting things ....Twickenham !!
Caught a tube n an overground train out there and walked ten minutes and ta da we were there!! Had a very cool shop to browse in before our tour started. Sadly the tour was a tad biy disappointing - our guide was a tired old man who was boring and then to top it off there was no grass because they had ripped it all up to re sow and fix the drainage in time for the rugby world cup in 2015. In a more positive manner we got to sit in the royal box and pretend we were cool ( while looking at a big rectangle of dirt ...lol)
It's a beauty of a stadium with not a bad seat anywhere - they even have a hotel attached where u can book a room that looks out onto the field-how awesome would that be on game day!! I'd be down for that and it only costs twelve thousand pounds - bargain lol.
Visited the supposed "world rugby museum" next and again was disappointed-our one in palmy north is way more 'worldly' than this one!! A lot of olden day stuff ... Boring!! No cool memorabilia or signed pics etc sad face!!
So that was our day! Hung out at st Pancras station til it was time to board the Eurostar! Got a stamp In my passport on a whole diff page for once so that made me smile!!
Looking forward to Paris ... Hope u r all well! Stink about the warriors...where does that leave us on the table now? Oh and please please please can someone or all of u record the opening ceremony of th Olympic games for us plz plz........
- Stef xoxo
Photos:
Me at Twickenham
Me with our train to Paris at St Pancras station in London
Me with ancient Greek discus thrower at British Museum
Me at Twickenham with English Rose
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