Day 8: The British Museum

After a lovely breakfast (with more free champagne), we left Hotel 41, checked into a hostel (which is quite a step down), and headed for the British Museum. The museum is perhaps the finest repository of Assyrian artifacts anywhere (thanks, ISIS), the best collection of Ancient Greek artifacts outside Greece, and one of the leading collections of Ancient Egyptian artifacts outside of Cairo and New York.

There's so much stuff in there that we spent about 6 hours inside and missed maybe a third of it. You'd have to visit 3 countries to get a similar sweep of world history through artifacts, and even then they'd tell you to visit the British Museum to see an important item.

After that, we needed a drink/to pay a visit to the Princess Louise tavern, which is a former "gin palace" of cut glass, dark wood, and hammered tin ceiling. The cheap pints are nice too. We were tired after all that, and so we went to sleep.