Highlights from the British Museum

The range of artefacts at the British Museum is incredible - the rosetta stone, cleopatra's mummy, mayan thingys ... amazing ... here's some of the highlights:

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the rosetta stone:

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An easter island statue:

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A totem pole:

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A Mayan carving:

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Cleopatra's Mummy:

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The Boat Race

I went to see The Boat Race mid-course, at Hammersmith Bridge. Oxford were a good length behind when they passed. Listen out for the guy in video shouting, "Oxford you're f***ed, you're f***ed Oxford!" ... Maybe that's what inspired them on to pull through to over a 2 length win over Cambridge by the end!

"The Clink"

Ha ha, I didn't actually know that this was a real place. It where the reference, "sent to the clink" (Prison) comes from.

Clink street prison was a notorious medieval prison I'm told.

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Sir Francis Drakes ship! and the worlds first maratime museum ...

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Sculpture on the South Bank

A pretty neat sculpture on the South Bank in London ...

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The Matrix, London Style

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Tate Modern

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Players in a Tunnel

Deliberately chosen I would think - a group belting out the four seasons in a tunnel on the south bank ...

Monument

Ever since I got to London the Monument was under scaffolding for renovations. This 61 meter tall structure was the tallest thing in the city for quite some time after it was erected 7 years after the great fire of London in in 1666. The height of the Monument is the exact distance that it is from the bakery on Pudding Lane where the fire started. Over three hundred years of city grime deposited on it has now been removed, while still preserving most of the original stonework. To look at, it's not that special, but when you know the history behind it it's pretty amazing. Worth waiting a year and a half to see.

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Tower Bridge

A nice bridge ... one of those images you think of when you think of London. It's actually ensured as a boat!

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Hyperbolic Crochet

At first glance you see a coral reef ... at second glance you realise the whole thing is cleverly crafted from crochet. Denise, Nici's sister contributed to this exhibit at the Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank in London. ... After a third and more prolonged glance you realise that its not even a reef, but in actual fact a visual representation of Hyperbolic Mathematics!

Abbey Road

Hopping out a St. John's Wood tube station we paid a visit to the Abbey Road Music Studios - Famously where the Beatles recorded their album and crossed the Zebra crossing ... and admittedly I'm not their ultimate groupy, but I couldn't resist the temptation to recreate the scene.


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Will Smith in Leicester Square

Look who I bumped into in Leicester square ...

London Eye, Part II

So we finally had a chance to actually go up the London eye. A half hour roundtrip with some pretty nice views of London ...

April Snows

Four seasons in one day guys. All of what you see below was gone by the afternoon, even our snowman. First time I've seen snow like this in years - and this is April, what's going on!!!

London Looking Good in the Nice Weather

As the summer rolls in London is starting to look nicer and nicer ... here's a few early morning and blue sky shots ...

The Rosetta Stone

I didn't get to see much else at the British Museum the day I went to the Terracotta Army, but there was one item I couldn't miss - The Rosetta Stone - It was the translations on this stone that allowed scholars to crack the meaning of hieroglyphs for the first time. Pretty impressive.

The Terracotta Army

Managed to catch the Teraccota Army, which was on show in the British Museum, before it moved on in April. It was really cool and would make you want to go to China to see the rest of them. No photographs inside unfortunately, but I sneaked a few ...




... Okay, so it's not actually the terracotta army in the photo. It's actually look-alikes that school kids at the museum did. ... pretty cool though!

Canary Wharf

I've been working around here for several months now. It's pretty impressive - especially the towers.

Babbage's Difference Engine and Calculators

One Saturday morning we headed off to the Science Museum for a gawk. They some of Babbage's difference engines there to view - the oldest computers / calculators. Huge contraptions. Pretty cool stuff if you're a computer scientist.