Fri, 08 Nov 2002

author Tim	location Beckenham, Kent, London, England
posted 22:06 GMT	section Europe2002/Europe/UK/England/London/London 2 ( all photos )

Science Museum ( 12 photos )
Today we visited another of Margaret's old friends - Dorothy in Chiswick. Yet more great hospitality and another nice place to relax in.
Some time was spent today wandering around the Science Museum. All of us were blown away with what was on offer - in the four hours we only just covered the first floor out of seven, and even that felt like we were skipping things. Displays included Space, Making the Modern World, Power, and Liz looked at what was apparently a fantastic "Glimpses of Medical History". The number of original items there was staggering - the first X-ray machine, Stephenson's Rocket (the first train, of sorts), the first Cray Supercomputer, etc. Now we need to spend more time there looking at the remaining floors!
Dinner tonight was at the local Indian restaurant, which we didn't think much of given the price.
Tomorrow we head off South from London, probably heading towards Dover for a look around the South-East, before we head West along the South coast. After that it's North towards Carlisle for Peter's birthday party!

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