Museums, museums, and, astoundingly, more museums.

London likes it's museums. Big museums. And so do I cos I'm a nerd! So over the past few days I've been fortunate enough to have some time to start checking them out. And I say "start checking them out" cos I've only really looked at bits and pieces of the museums pictured below.

Rant alert, rant alert:
God, seriously, there are soooooooo many people at these museums who walk around with their digital video cameras and just seriously take footage of everything in the whole damn building. It's as if they're scoping he place out for a raid or something. But not me. I think the whole fun of going to a muesum is that you are actually there and you can see a ridiculously huge dinosaur skeleton right in front of you! As if it's gonna look as cool on your TV screen. To these people I say "Why not just hire Jurassic Park on DVD and be done with it?! You'd obviously enjoy it!" However, I did take a few photos of stuff that just made me go: "wowzer!". And I can justify each one - and I will. End of rant.

This is the ceiling of the middle area of the British Museum.

I thought I'd had enough for the day at the Science Museum when I entered a room with this thing in it. And I thought, hey, that looks like a really big version of the model of a NASA Apollo Command Module that my Dad used to show me when I was small. Turns out, it wasn't just a big version of that model, it was the actual Command Module from the Apollo 10 mission around the moon.

It was even all melty on the bottom from entering back into Earth's atmosphere!

The Natural History Museum was really big. See? It has to be big to fit all the cool stuff inside.

On the day I went to the Natural History Museum there was an Ice Sculpting Festival on outside.

This doesn't have anything to do with museums but I laughted to myself when I saw it. I have a soft spot for silly graffiti.

Greenwich - Not actually a green sandwich.

I went out to visit my friend Toby in Greenwich a few days ago and he offered to show me the local sights. Of course, I only had one thing on my mind - I'm in Greenwich, show me the Greenwich Mean Time related sight! Damn tourist.

So we wandered over to Greenwich Park (yes, there were squirrels), and up Greenwich Hill (I assume it's called that), to the Royal Observatory, Greenwich (Greenwich sounds quite self-obsessed at this point). This is where old white men with glasses concocted the idea of GMT a couple of hundred years ago I guess. It's also where the longitude is 0 degrees. The "Prime Meridian", it's called. So on one side of that line of longitude is the Eastern Hemisphere, and on the other is the Western Hemisphere. And the touristy part?

THEY HAVE THE LINE DRAWN ON THE GROUND! AND A LASER TO SHOW THE LINE TOO! hehe The perfect nerd-trap. See my sweet photos.

Toby and Myself. The view is out over Greenwich Park, looking towards the Canary Wharf business district (those tall buildings).

The Laser. To the left of the photo is the Eastern Hem. To the right of the photo, the Western.

This is how one ought to conduct one's self when in two hemispheres simultaneously. I considered pulling out the old Simpsons gag of "Now I'm in the West, now I'm in the East, now I'm in the West..." etc, but, in Greenwich, I don't think they tolerate that kind of crap.

This is Canary Wharf as it started to get dark. Look closely... can you see the green laser beam going across the photo?