On my last day in London I got to spend half the day in the city.\u00a0 I left the apartment I’d been staying in and took the bus up to King’s Cross station again, and stored my luggage there.\u00a0 I then walked to the British Museum again to go through more of its galleries (stopping on the way for one more full English breakfast – the first one I got that included toast).<\/p>\n
I went through a few Asian galleries, the remaining Greek ones, and Assyrian ones.\u00a0 I also went through a large library that had display cases summarizing the history of the types of collecting done for the museum and what was learned from various categories of collected objects.<\/p>\n
I left the museum, having been through pretty much every gallery, around 4pm, and took a quick subway ride back to King’s Cross.\u00a0 I picked up my bags and got on the Underground’s Picadilly line, which goes all the way to Heathrow.<\/p>\n
Once at the airport, I had a bit of a walk to get to the check-in counter, but I got through there and security fairly quickly, and then had some food while waiting for my flight.\u00a0 Heathrow has an unusual way of handling departure gates – they have all the passengers wait in one central area, and only announce which gate your flight will leave from about 40 minutes before departure.<\/p>\n
The flight was full, but comfy, and I watched one more Icelandic film – this one a documentary called Ash<\/em>, about the eruption of the volcano Eyjafjallaj\u00f6kull in 2010 and the consequences that 3 farm families suffered from all the ash that fell.<\/p>\n I got into Keflavik around 11:30pm, and had an overnight layover ahead of me before my flight to the US.\u00a0 Was it a pleasant night?\u00a0 Stay tuned tomorrow…<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On my last day in London I got to spend half the day in the city.\u00a0 I left the apartment I’d been staying in and took the bus up to King’s Cross station again, and stored my luggage there.\u00a0 I then walked to the British Museum again to go through more of its galleries (stopping … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2642,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions\/2642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}