London

For the past two days we have been sightseeing in London, visiting the British Museum, British Library, the King Tut artifacts exhibit, and Westminster Abbey. The picture on the left is a sculpture in the British Museum. As a book nerd, one of my favorite things we did was a tour of the British Library, which included a bunch of interesting facts. For instance, the library is so large that rather than hand-carrying books to the reading room, librarians in the basement stacks fetch the book you want, then place it on an elaborate system of conveyor belts which delivers it to the patron. We also saw the largest book owned by the B.L., which is an absolutely enormous atlas - it takes three men to pick it up.

Yesterday our time in London ended, and we took a bus to Southampton to board the ship. Currently we are at sea, sailing toward Bergen, Norway. I've spent this morning working on planning my course for next semester, while sitting and watching us sail past numerous platforms in the North Sea.