deirdre | Back to London

After Norway, we had a sea day to get back to the UK, which was nice because it helped us rest up. The spa called, wondering if I'd wanted a massage, and it just seemed like everything on the ship was low energy that day. The passengers were tired.

We woke up early that morning, and after we'd gone to breakfast, we stared out at the white cliffs of Dover off our balcony.

The White Cliffs of Dover from our Balcony

Unlike nearly everyone else, we eschewed the ship-provided bus ride back to London and went the cheaper and quicker way: by train. I'd reserved a hotel by the Kensington tube station, so we navigated the change from Victoria station, and I discovered the flaw in my plan: the Kensington tube station isn't handicap accessible, so there's a lot of steps one has to negotiate. With luggage.

My bad.

We checked into our room only to discover that the window washer had just discovered that one of the windows needed repair, so we were off to a second room. After we cleaned up, we set off for the British Museum.

Now, to really understand how travel worn we were, we left without our cameras. We wandered around, seeing the Rosetta stone, Egyptian and Greek sites, the Elgin Marbles, and covered a significant chunk of the museum. We could have taken pictures had we brought our cameras. Argh!

So the next day we went back, and I got a lot of iPhone photos of the Islamic Pottery exhibit (room 34). Rick and I decided that we'd rather see the science museum, so we left my mother to explore the British Museum and headed off to the hotel, picked up the camera, and walked to the science museum.

In the science museum, they have 3D Imax films, so we saw one about living on the Space Station, which was absolutely awesome. I highly recommend seeing it if you're there: museum entry is free, but the movie costs extra.

Before and after the movie, we wandered around the most amazing collection of things.

A 1962 NASA rocket engine.