I love local museums, because I love learning the stories that small towns tell about themselves. Turns out that I love big museums too! And this was our chance to visit some of the very biggest.
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| Exhibits on timekeeping and navigation; rows and rows of artifacts. |
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| Dinosaur skeletons and taxidermy in the Natural History museum. |
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| And crowds. I'm happy that so many people wanted to learn, but yikes! |
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| My favourite exhibit was about math and how it applies in everyday life. Lots of very creative ways to visualize in fields like medicine and accounting. |
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| Looks like an abstract sculpture or a play park for kids, but it's more math! |
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| My favourite was visualizing the fields of air flow around the wings of this airplane. |
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And an evening spent catching up with a former shipmate. She's now living on land here in London and a 180-degree career change from maritime to education.
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| Can there be anything more London than this scene from our taxi on the way to the train to our next adventure? |
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| And our association with the Galeon, as I've always said, gives us different kinds of interactions with people than if we were just "random retired couple traveling the country in a minivan." We were chatting with the waitress at breakfast on our last morning in the hotel; she had asked where we were headed next so we showed her pictures of the ship and of us in our pirate garb. A few minutes later, completely unexpected, we got this dessert for breakfast! Pirates love gold, that's edible gold foil and white chocolate. |
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