with already agreed-upon plans to visit a museum with a friend on Sunday, all that was left to do was decide which one we'd go to. Having done most of the classics in the past few months, I decided yesterday to text her a meetup time and let her decide which establishment we would call on. Her pick was the Science Museum, which was great news as I hadn't been to one of those in a while, probably not since I've stopped playing with Lego (just to be clear: a long time ago). And I had great memories of the one in Hong-Kong, where the space section in particular was always one of my favorites.
Sunny skies, 21° weather. Winter in Sydney? Nope, July in London
nice use of the question mark. This is why I could never be a graphic designer. Stuff like this is probably kiddie stuff to them, brilliance to me
a revolutionnary new exhibit on families' eating habits, or museum cafeteria, I forget
first up, space. Since being a kid I've always loved stuff about space and the exploration of it, and this section contained a few interesting exhibits
like this replica of an Appolo lunar module
or this huge one of a satellite-launching rocket
speaking of satellites, this animation showed how many orbit the earth, including quite a few "dead" ones. Each little speck represents a satellite, and that's the earth in the middle (no really, it is, I swear)
one cool thing about science museums is they've always got random things lying around. Cars, planes, shampoo bottles...
"YAY!" Um, I mean, "sure, let's go to the 'Plastics and other polymers exhibit' "
then there was the Launchpad, a room filled with fun contraptions designed to teach kids about basic scientific phenomena. We thought that one can never know enough about science and decided to try out most of them
MY HAND, IT CONTROLS THE ELECTRICITY, MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
honestly, apart from the space room (and the Launchpad) most of the museum was pretty underwhelming, with exhibits that looked like they hadn't been updated since John Major was in power, so we chose to head to a slightly-less brainy place, the temple of consumerism: Harrod's
because the walk from the Science Museum to Harrod's is such a long one, we stopped on the way for a well-deserved snack break, where I was lucky enough to watch a few games of the insanely good Wimbledon final between Federer and Nadal. Seriously, some of those shots were out of this world
and what says Wimbledon more than strawberries and cream?
finally at Harrod's, in the food hall
there is no such thing as too much mustard, and you can quote me on that
feeling slightly out of place in the handbag section
yes, that is indeed a £400 fanny pack, or, as I like to call it, the answer to the age-old question "will the wonders never cease?" I hovered in the area for a few minutes to see if anyone would buy it, but amazingly no one did
H&M after Harrod's, guess at which store I spent money?
making our way back through Hyde Park, checking out the lake
the duck-equivalent of a golddigger. This little guy would only come over to you if you held some food out in your hand. I swear, ducks are so cynical about human nature
the remnants of yesterday's Tour de France first stage. Still doesn't make anymore sense why they held it in London, but I guess Hyde Park can always use some more heavily-marketed events, it's really too peaceful as it is
the usual crowds and weird rants in Speaker's Corner
I guess a full day of sunshine would be too much to ask. Oh well, at least it didn't rain
3 comments:
the only memory of my Lego-time-visit in London was a museum with Legos .. does it still exist or is my memory mixed up with something else ??
Cha, I know there's a Lego theme-park outside of London (Legoland), maybe that's the one you went to?
Not sure where exactly it is though
according to my mother, it wasn't a proper Lego museum, but there were a Lego room in some museum in the center. I still have the photo somewhere in my kid stuff.
I was 5 so it's normal I though it was bigger ;)
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