With full suitcases, we arrived in London in the afternoon, and what a surprise, it was overcast, gloomy, and looked like it was going rain. We unloaded our things at the Regent Palace Hotel in Piccadilly Circus and it was pretty much what you'd except from a big, 1000 room hotel that was 100 years old and going out of business at the end of the year; weathered, worn out, and kinda unpleasant. But for 49 pounds a night (an absolute steal especially when they were charging walk ins 129 pounds a night), and being located in Piccadilly Circus, you couldn't really complain.
We headed over to the British Museum and marveled at the world's greatest treasures under one roof. The British Museum is kind of like if your neighbor came into your house and stole all valuable things, and then displayed it in their living room and invited everyone on the block to come and look at it. The best example being the Parthenon, where the most famous ruins sit in the museum and not in Greece.
Other highlights from the museum included the Rosetta Stone:
and Cleopatra's mummy:
After being told the museum was closing and ushered off several times (there was just too darn much to see), we roamed around the streets and at night's end, found ourselves at a pub, where I ordered one of my favorite drinks, snake-bite and black.
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In Regent Palace Hotel, paints were coming off the wall in the hallway and the amenities were very old. But the location in Piccadilly Circus was great! It was like living in Time Square when you visit NYC!
If you want to see the Parthenon, go to the British Museum. There is not much ancient Greece left in Athens. I’d be pretty upset if I were a Greek citizen.
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