Museum of London

Aline writes: Bill and I visited the Museum of London, which is a wonderful museum. It traces London from prehistoric times, to the Roman town Londinium, to the development of London as a modern city. They have lots of fascinating artifacts that have been discovered, like skulls with holes in their heads that have partially healed, indicating that brain operations were performed on them and they survivied! Plus lots of gold roman coins, mosiac floors, weapons, etc. My favorite part was an exhibition about an excavation done on the Thames, where they discovered piles for a bridge or platform into the Thames (pre-Roman) that may have been used for offerings to the river gods - they also found lots of artifacts such as spearheads, skulls, coins that may have been used as offerings. Then the same night, they had a whole show on the excavation by Time Team, a show I am totally addicted to. Luckily they have Time Team on here multiple times a day, and even on multiple channels at the same time, so I can feed my addiction! The whole idea of digging up a Roman Villa in your back yard has a romance to it when you are from California, where my 60 year old house is considered old :-). We recuperated by stopping at a little Austrian cafe (our museum guide told us about it) and having tea and divine cakes. Yum!
The streets around the cafe were really neat (which the guide also told us about) and so we took a few pictures there. Apparently they have filmed Poirot episodes around here (for those Mystery fans out there!) here are a few pics: