Ye olde London

Wednesday 15 & Thursday 16 August

After a few lazy days of not completing any tourist obligations, I set off to the Museum of London. I spent 5 solid hours in the museum on Wednesday and 6 hours on Thursday. I went on a tour of part of the London Wall ruins (including a section which is under the modern road), a demonstration of a Roman water well, and a Bollywood Brass Band demonstration.

It was an extremely entertaining 2 days (for me) so I'm glad I didn't torture anyone else by making them sit (or stand as the case may be) through the entire 2 days while I read every single exhibit explanation in the museum. The exhibitions included "London Before London" - which showed artefacts from 450,000 BC to 50 AD, "Roman London" from 50 AD to 410 AD, then "Medieval London" from 410 to 1558 and a special exhibition "London Burning - the Great Fire of London 1666".