Monday, September 2, 2024 – The British Museum and Phantom of the Opera

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Happy Labor Day for everyone celebrating Labor Day. For everyone who is not celebrating Labor Day, happy Monday.

Today we visited the British Museum.

The British Museum.

The British Museum is flat out amazing. While the British Empire controlled a good portion of the world, the British gathered priceless artifacts from all over the world and brought these artifacts back to London and put them in the British Museum. The Rosetta Stone and the Elgin Marbles are the highlights of the Museum, but the Museum has so much more to offer.

Stone carving from ancient Sumaria.

One of my favorite exhibits was the Sutton Hoo exhibit.

There is a whole wing of the Museum dedicated to objects found at Sutton Hoo and other excavated mounds in England.
This is a little hard to read but I recommend you watch a movie about Sutton Hoo and the excavation, called The Dig.
Great movie.

I also enjoyed the Japanese exhibit sponsored by Mitsubishi.

This set of Samurai armor and armaments was amazing.
This ceramic pillow was in the Chinese wing. I have no idea how this could have been comfortable or popular.
The Museum has an extensive collection of timepieces from wristwatches to these huge grandfather clocks. This summer my good friend Jim Priefert visited a great clock museum in Iowa. Jim is recovering from a major surgery. If you have a prayer to spare please send it his way.

After we finished our tour of the museum we stopped off at a tapas place for a light lunch.

Potatoes Bravas and grilled squid. Very tasty.

After an short afternoon siesta we had dinner at this great Indian restaurant.

They don’t take reservations so we waited in line outside the restaurant for fifteen minutes before we got a table. It was worth the wait.
Mushrooms.
Prawns in a curry sauce
Chicken curry.

After this great meal we walked over to His Majesty’s Theatre.

Beautiful small theatre.

We got sixth row center tickets to see Phantom of the Opera.

Who doesn’t like Phantom. And this production was beyond magnificent.

That’s it for tonight. I hope you are having a great day wherever you are.

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I've been retired from the Union Pacific Railroad since 2017. I've been planning to walk the Camino for about 6 months and can't wait to get started.

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