Tuesday 2 December 2008

British Museum - English thieves...

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We did our first field trip for a while with L (and D) last week with our lovely local home-edder family. Showed L the Elgin Marbles and struggled to explain how we had them and Greece didn't.

Babylon exhibition: great if you're REALLY grown-up (much more grown-up than me) - not much for children. Best for us were the Rosetta Stone, the Standard of Ur (Mesopotamia, near Mummies) and the Mummy room, especially the animals. If you're going, take worksheets I think.

Wagamama's for lunch afterwards was excellent. It's right outside the Museum but hard to find unless you know it's there - fast service and the noise hid all our kid noise well.

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