Today was another great day and it started with a full 9 hours of sleep and that is probably no coincidence.
After we woke up and showered and packed and told Jen (our couchsurfing host) more thank-yous (she really is awesome) we headed to the British Museum (http://tinyurl.com/khvpx). This museum is huge. It should be huge from the way they filled the museum. As England "took over" soooo many countries and dynasties and empires they would then ship all the coolest stuff back to London (Parthenon sculptures, Roman relics, paintings...) and keep them there for their own true citizens. So, the museum has lots of great artifacts, I mean, I got to see the Rosetta Stone (http://tinyurl.com/yugsde)!
Anywho, after cruising through that museum we headed to another, the National Gallery (http://tinyurl.com/5de6dr) where my amazement truly jumped at the site of seeing some great art...and when I say great I'm talking about guys like Da Vinci, Rafael, Michelangelo, Monet, Manet, Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Renoir and Reubens. All the greats. I ate it up like crazy.
We headed on our biggest journey of the evening after that and trekked on out to Camden to try and find Abbey Road. Yes, I'm a dork. After studying numerous worthless maps, taking 2 Underground trains and two buses, we decided to start asking people and it took about the 4th or 5th person to finally give us any kind of good answer. We even got one lady to ask us what it was...(insert British subtitles) "No, I don't know what that is but it's the 2nd time today someone's asked me for directions there...what is it?" Good Grief. Found it. Walked it. videoed it. Loved it...and that's all you need.
I will hopefully have all the videos wrapped up and sent to Newsok.com by tomorrow night for a 1st week wrap-up...here's hoping! :) Goodnight OKC.
(Oh, and I bought one of these today http://tinyurl.com/nsntz3)
Next stop Paris.
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