British museum and a funny play

Today, we went to British museum, which is massive, super impressive and free. We were attracted to the opportunity to see the highlights with the 2 hr VoiceMap tour by a London Art historian. It was really interesting - essentially a massive collection of treasures brought (stolen?) from other countries. Here, we saw more Egyptian mummies than we saw in Egypt, and more beautiful Parthenon reliefs than we saw in Athens.

We also saw a mythical Moa head from the Eastern Island (perhaps we don’t need to go there anymore?). We also saw famous Rosetta Stone - a stone that was found in Egypt and was the first known “dictionary”. On the stone some financial and historical transaction is recorded - in three languages: Greek, Egyptian mainstream and Egyptian hieroglyphics. The Rosetta Stone allowed to decipher and understand Egyptian hieroglyphics.

After the museum I had lunch of delicious lagman with hand pulled noodles at the Uyghur restaurant. I never heard of this cuisine but apparently it’s central Asian, in northern China, similar to Uzbek, but distinctly different.

In the evening we went to see a play HowThe Other Half Loves. It was a classic British comedy - very fun! On the way there, on Ilona’s request I stopped by at a Greek yogurt bar for a tasting. It was good, but Ilona’s is much better!Read more