After a discussion with my friend we decided that going by Megabus would be the way forward. After all it was both cheap and reliable and afforded us the opportunity to spend the day in London before travelling onwards.
After arriving in the early afternoon we decided to first take in two of the major sight seeing sights in London; Westminster and Buckingham Palace. Because we were travelling in January the grounds around the palace were quite quiet and we were able to wander around the fenced off palace and the statues surrounding it in relative peace and quiet.Afterwards we took a stroll through a lovely nearby park to Westminster, where we wandered around the government building and took pictures of Big Ben. Afterwards we went to London's comic book museum and had lunch before heading off to The British Museum.
This Museum really is one of the highlights in London, stuffed as it is with statues, curios and religious artifacts and housed in a magnificently impressive building. We started in a section filled with golden clocks, delicate astrological equipment and impressive statues. Afterwards we wandered through the distinctly painful looking acient America's section (with delightful statues threading rope through their tongues) before taking a turn through Classical Greece, Stone Age man, Babylon and Ancient Egypt.We left the museum thoroughly impressed with what we had seen. Afterwards we had food at a particularly delicious and most importantly cheap Mexican take out place.
When we had eaten our full we wandered back through the city ready to take the bus through to Brussels and the start of our European adventure.
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