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Published: February 26th 2012
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We hit the Harry Potter pilgrimage site of Platform 9 3/4 at King's Cross Station first thing this morning. They had a sign and half a trolley sticking out of the wall for pictures.
After that, we went down Euston Road to the British Library. Most of it was closed off from tourists, but they did have a square section in the middle that went up several floors. It was just shelves and shelves of books behind glass. I want a library like that.
Next we went further down to North Gower Street to see where BBC Sherlock films the outside of 221b Baker Street. Amy is a rabid fan and I have a strong feeling that I will be too once I start watching it. The picture will hopefull be really cool one day.
The British Museum was next. It was massive, and crammed full of artifacts and treasures. It seemed like it would never end. My favorite secion was the Egyptian mummy exhibit, but the Assyrian areas were cool as well. They had a gate that was over two stories tall, huge Assyrian sphinxes, and tons of wall paintings and sculptures. It was pretty fun beaing
able to recognize pieces that I had seen in books or movies before. They also had medals from the Olympic games that are being held this summer in London. Definitely something I'll never see again. I got to see the Rosetta Stone, which was awesome. It was quite large and the writing was extremely clear. I wasn't all that impressed with the Acropolis exhibit, but it was mostly broken statue torsos and relief sculptures. Not that anything could hope to compete with the actual Acropolis anyway. I almost missed the exhibit about Sutton Hoo, but I just stumbled onto it. It was one of the most interesting exhibits, especially because there wasn't much on English history that wasn't Roman or Medieval.
We had a late lunch at a little Italian restaraunt before heading to Covent Gardens and walking around. There were so many cute stores and the outdoor market was wonderful. There was even a plam reading fortune teller, which I ignored. There were performers everywhere. We saw a string quartet with a flautist playing Irish music, and a juggler. We watched the juggler's whole show. He did a lot of interacting with the crowd while juggling pins and
knives, while doing other tricky things. His main event was riding a 7 foot tall unicycle. It was absolutely amazing. I thought he'd never get up there, but he did get up there (by climbing on top of three men).
After Covent Gardens, we walked around Picadilly Circus. We hadn't had much of a chance to look around last night. The best part was that it started snowing! There was a steady flurry for the rest of the night. It was beautiful.
We had dinner at a restaraunt in Chinatown after walking around some more. The streets had tons of lanterns of different shapes, sizes, and colors (although mostly red) hanging aboce them. The thing that struck me the most was that some restaraunts had entire cooked birds hanging in their windows.
The rest of the night was spent at our hostel talking with the girls in our room. There was a Brit, two from Poland, and two from Belgium. We talked about so many things: movies, tv shows, the origin of "Saygun" (some cross country traveling law), food, and more.
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