The British Museum of course!And it's free! Got to love the Brits for that!
Rosetta Stone - now protected by a glass case - unlike the first time I saw it - then there was just a rope around it with nothing to stop an excited 16 year old from touching it!
Amazing - the Egyptian King Lists. The basis for many years of all the chronology schemes in the Near East.
Assyrian scultpture is fantastic. I wonder how much has been lost in the last couple of years as Iraq has slid into anarchy.
One of the Museum's jewels - the Parthenon Marbles. Whether they should be here is far to complex a question for me.
The Lewes Chess set. Beautiful little ivory pieces from the Viking times.
I've always had a soft spot for medieval art. Reckon i missed my calling, should have been a medievalist. These i think were from the old Palace of Westminister.
This piece is equisite each circle is smaller than the centre of my palm and yet it is carved in 3D. Absolutely amazing.
Down to London for Christmas with the English family and mum and dad and VIC! They do great things with light here, especially since it gets dark at 4.30.
Saw the site of the Battle of Hastings. 1066 and all that. Now there is a private school there in the old abbey William the Conquerer built. I can't believe the Saxons lost. They had the high ground advantage, although were exhausted from their previous battle at Stamford bridge, and it seems the Normans were just too cunning.
Saw the Crown Jewels at the Tower of London, as well as the site of many royal executions on Tower Green. Plus watched the poor clipped ravens jump about the White Tower. London in Winter is amazing. They have ice skating rinks all around major sites, the Tower, Somerset House, Kew Gardens, Hampton Court lots of beautiful locations. Fancy skating in a former moat?
And of course, New Years Eve.... Slipped up to Sheffield for the night to show Vic the town and celebrate in the Devonshire Cat. Oh, what a night.....!
