Inside the British Museum
Read this article with a BBC Radio One accent, you’ll regret it if you don’t. The day I arrived was the Queen’s birthday, the one in June, not her actual birthday, so TfL was running on reduced frequencies. I originally planned to see at all 99 gun salutes in three different places, but due to the reduced frequency of the underground I only managed to catch 41 of them. Still, not bad. Unlike Paris which I later reached by Eurostar, the streets were clean and the people were courteous.
MI6 Headquarters, Bond, James Bond
I visited almost all of the state-run museums and found them comfortably well-curated and the information cards well-researched. The inside of the British Museum reminds me of the opening sequence for Eyewitness documentaries when they were still available on VCR. The only museum I couldn’t see was the Imperial War Museum, which was under renovation at the time. What a shame. To compensate for that, I got to see the Cirque du Soleil in the Millennium Drome.
Do pay a visit to the East side of London where you can find the Greenwich Observatory and the official ground zero for the international date line. If you’re into postmodernist architecture, then check out Canary Wharf with its impressive tube station.
