One of the things I love the most here is that almost every street has what looks like old, small, skinny houses (kind of like Full House style) but you walk in the door, and it's HUGE! Example: the first place we went today, Soanes House. Soane was an architect and the builder of the Bank of England. He was rich and married even more money. So he created a house unlike any I'll ever have the opportunity of seeing again. He leisurly traveled through Italy for 2 years and collected pediments, statues, and capitols fromt the Pantheon, hundreds of world renound paintings, and other classical building pieces. But those were just some of the "normal" items... after that, things got weird. Skeletons hanging, hundreds of mirrors everywhere, old mumified tombs, and an egyptian sarcophogus in the basement. It was all fascinating, and innovative for the time. You know you have a cool house when they turn it into a museum once you die. They didn't allow photography, so you'll just have to imagine for yourself this classical Halloween lovers dream mansion. Then we headed to the British Museum. When you walk in, look up. The glass ceiling is AMAZING! Norman Foster designed such a breathtaking focal point. Rumor had it that the Rosetta Stone was in there somewhere, so I went through an hour long exhibit of African and Egyptian history in search. Found it, photographed it, loved it. Then I found out this one was a fake, it was just a cast. We sat on a bench out front of the museum and ate our homemade PB&J's. It poured rain, which is has been doing ever since we got here. So we walked in that rain to Saint Pauls Cathedral. No photos were allowed here either, so I couldn't document the 517 steps I climbed to walk around the dome and attempt the "wispering wall". The wispering wall is the wall around the dome, but supposedly if you wisper with your face pressed up against it, your wisper travels around and comes back to you, or whoever is listening. Didn't work. We tried for an hour and failed every time. I did witness someone succeed at it though. Afterwards, we shopped. The shopping here is the best so far, I could spend days just looking through every store. I grabbed some gems, and headed back to the flat. Ashlee, being the domestic cook that she is, made us grilled cheese and soup for dinner. Our stove takes about an hour and half to heat up, so we made them in the oven. In a pan. They were amazing.
Soane was an architect and the builder of the Bank of England. He was rich and married even more money. So he created a house unlike any I'll ever have the opportunity of seeing again. He leisurly traveled through Italy for 2 years and collected pediments, statues, and capitols fromt the Pantheon, hundreds of world renound paintings, and other classical building pieces.
But those were just some of the "normal" items... after that, things got weird. Skeletons hanging, hundreds of mirrors everywhere, old mumified tombs, and an egyptian sarcophogus in the basement. It was all fascinating, and innovative for the time. You know you have a cool house when they turn it into a museum once you die. They didn't allow photography, so you'll just have to imagine for yourself this classical Halloween lovers dream mansion. Then we headed to the British Museum. When you walk in, look up. The glass ceiling is AMAZING! Norman Foster designed such a breathtaking focal point. 
Rumor had it that the Rosetta Stone was in there somewhere, so I went through an hour long exhibit of African and Egyptian history in search. Found it, photographed it, loved it. Then I found out this one was a fake, it was just a cast. 
We sat on a bench out front of the museum and ate our homemade PB&J's. It poured rain, which is has been doing ever since we got here. So we walked in that rain to Saint Pauls Cathedral. 
No photos were allowed here either, so I couldn't document the 517 steps I climbed to walk around the dome and attempt the "wispering wall". The wispering wall is the wall around the dome, but supposedly if you wisper with your face pressed up against it, your wisper travels around and comes back to you, or whoever is listening. Didn't work. We tried for an hour and failed every time. I did witness someone succeed at it though. Afterwards, we shopped. The shopping here is the best so far, I could spend days just looking through every store. I grabbed some gems, and headed back to the flat. Ashlee, being the domestic cook that she is, made us grilled cheese and soup for dinner. Our stove takes about an hour and half to heat up, so we made them in the oven. In a pan. They were amazing.
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