May 25 London (Last day)

The British Museum is the home to perhaps the world's most extensive collection of artifacts from all corners of the world. In its height (around 1920), the sun never set on the British empire that covered a quarter of the world.
Many pieces were probably taken (stolen or robbed) unjustly. This is one chamber that housed many Chinese bronze urns dating back to 3000 BC, jade carvings, and various ivory items.
Jade horse

Mummified kitty cats (Sorry it's blurry)

Kitty replicas were also encased with the dead.


This is probably the most valuable artifact in the museum, the Rosetta Stone. Its discovery allowed archeologists to translate hieroglyphs. Top left corner shows 2 or 3 lines of hieroglyphs followed by large section of Egptian Demotic then Greek (bottom of picture).

Westminster Abbey

Houses of Parlament

Big Ben

You can bearly see the London Eye on the left, a ginormous ferris wheel. The view of London is suppose to be spectacular, but ticket to ride it was too expensive to tempt us.

Our stow-away makes another appearance.

Gate to Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace looks a lot bigger on TV. We missed the changing of the guards.

Picadilly Circus, London version of NYC's Time Square