Oh My Aching Feet...
Well the reason I haven't really posted in my blog for a few days is that I am madly in love. Yes, that's right, I'm completely infatuated with the British Museum.It's totally amazing to see the metopes from the Parthenon that I did my Year 12 Classics catalogue on as well as the frieze from the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus itself! I was so excited to see that famous bust of Perikles (I went by and said hi and told him I would one day actually finish Thuycidides' History) and that vase with Achilles slaying Penthiseleia... wow... I'm such a happy camper.
I realise that to most people my rant would make them think the British Museum is actually incredibly borin, but I don't care, I love it soooooo much with every fibre of my being! (Except for my feet which are complaining after having stood for 21 hours...)
I've uploaded a picture of the Rosetta Stone. For those of you that don't know the Rosetta Stone was the key to deciphering Egyptian heiroglyphics. If you look carefully you can see me in the reflection in the glass in front of the Stone taking the picture! :p
Alright, I have to go massage my aching feet now...
posted by Xin @ 8:45 am
1 Comments:
At 5:57 pm,
Anonymous said…
It sounds like you're having such an awesome time. When I was overseas I would so despise what you're doing going back to the museum but now it's like a must on my list is to see the museum so I appreciate how cool THAT museum is now. (Oh, and the aquarium and zoo is the other must see just out of interest, although Hawaii didn't fit into that routine just cos...) Make sure you go down to see HMS VICTORY wont you - it's the oldest ship still commissioned (very much worth it from what I hear! and not just from shipp-y people like me!)
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