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How long did you spend at the British Museum? How long did you wish you had?

You could spend your entire trip at the British Museum. It's ridiculously huge.

Yeah I got that impression online that you could almost never see it all.

I think what I had planned on for that day was a couple hours at the National Gallery and then the rest of the day at the Bristish Museum realizing I wouldnt be seeing everything at either, but at least going to both.

I think the antiquities stuff is the best there. Unless you really are studying it, you can get through the Egypt,Greece, and Rome displays in a few hours.

Cletus wrote:I think the antiquities stuff is the best there. Unless you really are studying it, you can get through the Egypt,Greece, and Rome displays in a few hours.

yea, especially if you are take the time to appreciate the more mundane stuff - I remember being amazed at some Roman plumbing fixtures and reading about how that changed the world - at least until the dark ages took hold. Then I realized I had about an hour left before closing and didn't get thru 1/3 of it. I think I had 3 hours allotted for it - but that was all I had as I was there on business.

I'm sure we'll go next week. I'l remember to take note of any cool things you should watch out for. You can't miss stuff like the Rosettea Stone or the Elgin Marbles but there are a million other little things that are worth checking out too.

Dollywood

I'm watching some youtube videos of heavyweight champ Deontay Wilder, looks like half of his earlier fights were in Tuscaloosa. What's up with that?

The museum at the Tower, too. It's small, but worthwhile.

With those museums, I would do St. Paul's, Westminster, Parliament, and the Tower.

Hyde Park (Speakers' Corner), Horse Guards, and Hampton Court are worthwhile.

Day trips to Dover/Canterbury (can do Leeds Castie on the way), Oxford/Cambridge, Windsor Castle, are all worthwhile.

Meh: Stonehenge, Buckingham (except in August), Madame Tussaud's, and London Dungeon (except for kids). Would avoid them all.

hedge wrote:I'm watching some youtube videos of heavyweight champ Deontay Wilder, looks like half of his earlier fights were in Tuscaloosa. What's up with that?

He's from Tuscaloosa. He likes to fight here.

C'mon, folks, we need to come up with a vacation for eCat that checks off all the boxes
* Nearly gets him killed
* Has some type of dispute with mgmt
* Wife ends up enjoying it immensely as he suffers
* Gives us a few months of fodder

It's aTm who is going to London.


Any vacation eCat goes on will get him in that trouble you listed.

Harsh, but fair.

AlabamAlum wrote:The museum at the Tower, too. It's small, but worthwhile.
With those museums, I would do St. Paul's, Westminster, Parliament, and the Tower.
Hyde Park (Speakers' Corner), Horse Guards, and Hampton Court are worthwhile.
Day trips to Dover/Canterbury (can do Leeds Castie on the way), Oxford/Cambridge, Windsor Castle, are all worthwhile.
Meh: Stonehenge, Buckingham (except in August), Madame Tussaud's, and London Dungeon (except for kids). Would avoid them all.

Kinda have an idea of what we're doing several days (sightseeing in parentheses, not doing extra tours of these)
1) The Shard viewing deck, Tower Bridge, Tower of London (HMS Belfast, City Hall, London Wall, Great Fire Monument, Canary Wharf)
2) Changing of the Horse Guards, Churchill War Rooms (Westminster Bridge, Houses of Parliament/Big Ben, Phone Booth, Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, The Mall, Whitehall/Embankment)
3)Hyde Park, Harrods, Victoria & Albert Museum (Kensington Palace/Gardens, Albert Memorial, Albert Hall)
4)Shopping, Soho Sightseeing, West End Theatre (Oxford/Regent/Bond streets, Liecester Square, Chinatown, Piccadilly Circus)
5)National Gallery, British Museum (Trafalgar Square)
6) St. Pauls, Museum of London, Leadenhall Market, Jack the Ripper Tour (Paternoster Square, Stock Exchage, Old Bailey, Guildhall, Bank of England, William Wallace Memorial, Whitechapel)
7) Harry Potter Warner Bros. Studios trip
8) Day trip likely, undecided where yet
We have 10 full days (not including travel days) so I've left a couple open. Plus we arrive early on our arrival day so thats pretty open too. Hopfeully be able to go Stamford Bridge for a match while there as well.

If those numbers represent days, I do not think you will finish your itinerary. Things in London are not open late and everything seems to take much more time to see.

So i cant expect to go 2 or 3 places within like a half mile of each other in a day? Ive researched all the opening and closing times so Im aware on that. Keep in mind almost everything in parentheses is pretty much something we'll snap a picture of and see on the walk between two places and not some place i plan on spending time.

2, maybe. 3 is hard. Is for me, anyway.

Queue time, travel time, breakfast, lunch, and pubs always add more time than I anticipate.

Might just be me.

Do you have your costume for No. 7 yet? I know, probably a silly question.

You need to save way more time for pubs.

Saint wrote:Do you have your costume for No. 7 yet? I know, probably a silly question.

yea, that one jumped out at me too

My wife won't shut up about going to the one in Universal Studios, Florida