We slept in a bit, got up around 8:30, walked down the street and had breakfast, then took the underground to the British Museum. I had in my journal from 2001 that it was really great.
It was really great, and huge. It's free to get in, and it mostly covers cultures from around the world. They have amazing exhibits on ancient Rome and ancient Greece and ancient Iran (Mesopotamia), but have exhibits on old American cultures and others as well. They have the Rosetta Stone there, and the also the sarcophagus of Cleopatra, with Cleopatra still inside. They have other sarcophagus's, all containing mummies as well. It was very cool, and we spent a number of hours there.
After that we headed down to near the London Eye and went to the London Dungeon. I did the London Dungeon in 2001 as well, and really enjoyed all the gruesome exhibits they had on torture, the plague, beheadings and all the other gruesome things in Britain's past.
This time around it was WAY different. It's a full on, fully interactive experience, with actors playing the parts of various characters, and take you on a tour through Britain's past, from being charged with treason in the middle ages, to getting the plague, and getting beheaded. It was AWESOME, so much fun, really spooky and lasted over two hours!
We went for supper in that area, then headed back to the hostel.
Since we've been here, there's been a fast food fried chicken outlet down the street that has had hundreds of people lining up, waiting to get in literally from open until close. The place is called Jollibee. I remember reading something about a Filipino chicken fast-food chain expanding globally earlier this year, so figured this was it. They are lined up down the block both ways, and around the block, hundreds upon hundreds of people all day, every day. It's hilarious. Who know that people could take fried chicken so seriously. https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/crowds-brave-london-chill-for-philippine-fast-food-giant-jollibees-british-debut
Tomorrow we're up early for a 9:00am train to Edinburgh.
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