T-Rex, Natural History Museum London
She Said:
Relaxing train ride from Taunton to London. Arrived a bit early to our hotel, the excellent Crowne Plaza on the Cromwell Road in Kensington, so left our bags with the concierge and headed out to the Museum of Natural History, only 4-5 blocks away on our street.
The Natural History Museum was on our list, as the last time we were in London the lines to get in were so long that we gave it a miss.
This time, we sailed right in. There were still loads of school kids on class trips, but we we able to move around easily.
The museum is housed in a magnificent, huge building that looks to be from about 1850-ish.
Unfortunately, the exhibits were quite juvenile, definitely geared towards the school kids.
We did have a good look at the dinosaurs, the geology wing, the humanoid skeleton evolution, and some interesting bug collections, but the real highlight of the day was the Butterfly Exhibit outside in the (hot and humid) tent. I won't go into the descriptions as R took loads of great photos.
Once we were settled back in our room, we walked across the street to our convenient neighborhood Waitrose grocery store and bought our favorite London meal - rotisserie chicken, rice and Indian potatoes and spinach, salad fixings, and wine and beer. Back in our room, with a view of the trees and the street below, we ate like royalty (ha!) and toasted our good fortune.
For some reason,the train conductors today didn't check tickets, so we find ourselves with two extra days of rail passes on our hands, so we may head out of town tomorrow (along with the rest of London, as it is a Bank Holiday weekend).
We'll see. For now, we are happy to just sit back and relax some more.
Total Mileage:
3.01 miles (London)
Total Flights Climbed:
0 (Though we did go up a few flights in the museum - the app probably uses up and down GPS, which wasn't available in the museum.)
He said:
We said good bye to the countryside and Exmoor and had a smooth journey from Dunster to London. We decided to try to see the Natural History Museum, with this year celebrating the 90th birthday of David Attenborough. Recently the statue of Charles Darwin was placed center stage at the museum since now most people agree that evolution is the best explanation for all the observational evidence of living things. The museum is in a huge building and was teaming with school kids where each group had on matching color shirts. The crowds, traffic and noise of London is in stark contrast with Exmoor, but it is still very civilized. After seeing the rocks, bones, collected bugs, and dinosaurs in the museum, we went to see the Butterfly exhibit on the front lawn. Inside were hundreds of flying and resting butterflies from the tropics. We enjoyed the many colors and having slow insects gently flying around us, and even landing on our clothes.
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