# London, England and Back Home

Source: https://sumnerevans.com/posts/travel/2019-dc-transatlantic-cruise/2019-06-02-london-england-to-denver/
Published: 2019-06-01
Travel, Trip to D.C. and Transatlantic Cruise, London, England, Denver, Colorado, Flight, British Museum, The Tube, Buckingham Palace

Today was my last day of vacation. I flew back to Denver in the afternoon, and I
am starting my job at The Trade Desk on Monday which is just two days away! But,
that means that I had most of the morning to be in London. So, I decided to go
over to Buckingham Palace and then to the British Museum.

I stored my bags at the hotel, and went to the supermarket to get some
breakfast. Then, I took the Tube up to Buckingham Palace and walked around there
a little bit.

![Me in front of Buckingham Palace](images/buckingham-palace.jpg)

![A panorama of Buckingham Palace](images/buckingham-palace2.jpg)

I really like Buckingham Palace. I think the architecture of the main palace is
very pretty and the grounds are so well kept. I also really like the gold statue
in front of the palace.

Then, I walked over to the British Museum. My goal was to avoid all of the big
"everyone takes a picture of this object" things, because I'd done that last
time I was in London.

I decided to go over to the Greece section where much of the crown of the
Parthenon is stored. I walked around looking at all of the different sculptures.
I saw all of the Parthenon displays last time I was in London, but I wanted to
take more time to read the plaques and see what each of the sculptures was
portraying. The nice thing about going to the museum by myself was that I could
spend as much time as I wanted looking at things, and my family wasn't trying to
get me to move on.

I also walked through the Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia exhibits, and then I
want to a section of the museum that I don't think is travelled as much: the
Ancient Europe section which had a lot of interesting displays about the
Germanic, Gaulish, and Nordic peoples from before the Christianisation of
Europe.

Then, I spent a while over in the clocks exhibit which had a bunch of different
old timepieces. I really liked one that kept time using a ball which went back
and forth to keep the time.

[Watch video](https://sumnerevans.com/posts/travel/2019-dc-transatlantic-cruise/2019-06-02-london-england-to-denver/images/clock.mp4)


After that, I walked down and looked at the exhibits about the Pacific islands
and saw the big Easter Island statue.

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By this time, it was late morning into the early afternoon, so I took the tube
back to Victoria Station and went back to the hotel to get my bags. Then, I went
back to Victoria Station to try and figure out how to get to the Gatwick
Airport. After a bunch of wandering around, I found the right place to buy a
ticket and then got on a train that I hoped was going in the right direction.
There were tons of other people with suitcases as well, so I figured that it was
the right train. It was, thankfully.

Getting through the airport and the entire flight were uneventful. I did get
some good views of Greenland and Northern Canada out the window though.

![A view over the plane wing of Greenland](images/greenland.jpg)