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The National Maritime Museum

Posted on August 11, 2013 4:54 am by Kerri Comment

This museum full of ships was more interesting than it sounds.

Ship in a giant bottle. It’s labelled a “Giant Ship in a Bottle”, but the ship is still pretty small, for a ship.

A big boat with a duck head.

Heads chopped off of various ships.

Kerri standing Greenwich on a giant map of the world in Greenwich.The giant map of the world from above.

A funky map of what drove exploration in different areas. Notice the completely empty area in the top left that we call home.

A carved elephant tusk depicting the slave trade.

Matt making the museum “Make Fast”

A 1922 Stained Glass dome from the Baltic Exchange.

The Cutty Sark, a ship used in the 1800s to trade tea and wool. You could go inside and underneath it, but we were sick of ships.

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Greenwich

Posted on August 10, 2013 9:26 pm by Kerri Comment

We took a brief break from London and headed out to Greenwich to check out the observatory. It sits on a hill so we had a quick rest before checking out the Prime Meridian.

Everyone has the picture of themselves standing on either side of the meridian. We took a different approach headed down into the park and lined ourselves up with the marker above. This is the furthest we’ve ever been apart, whole hemispheres in this case. (This had nothing to do with the ridiculous line and cost to see a metal bar embedded into the ground.)

The observatory was a very interesting building and we checked out the science exhibits inside.

Here’s Kerri petting the Earth’s oldest pet rock.

This was a wall of all the official measurement, both time and distances. Kerri’s foot isn’t quite kingly enough.

And what better way to top it off than street noodles. Sadly there was no more shrimp, but the food was still great.

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Portobello Road

Posted on August 10, 2013 9:00 am by Kerri Comment

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Portobello road, Portobello road

Street where the riches of ages are stowed.

Anything and everything a chap can unload

Is sold off the barrow in Portobello road.

You’ll find what you want in the Portobello road.

Rare alabaster? Genuine plaster!

A filigreed samovar owned by the czars?

A pen used by Shelley? A new Boticelli?

The snipper that clipped old King Edwards cigars?

Waterford Crystals? Napoleons pistols?

Society heirlooms with genuine gems!

Rembrandts! El Grecos! Toulouse-Letrecos!

Painted last week on the banks of the Thames!

Portobello road, Portobello road!

Street where the riches of ages are stowed

Anything and everything a chap can unload

Is sold off the barrow in Portobello road.

You’ll meet all your chums in the Portobello road

There’s pure inspiration in every creation.

No cheap imitations, not here in me store.

With garments as such as was worn by a Duchess.

Just once at some royal occasion of yore.

In Portobello Road, Portobello Road

The fancies and fineries of ages are showed.

A lady will always feel dressed a la mode

In frillies she finds in the Portobello road.

Burkes Peerage; The Bride Book; The Fishmongers Guidebook;

A Victorian novel, The Unwanted Son;

The History of Potting, The Yearbook of Yachting,

The leather bound Life of Attila the Hun.

Portobello Road, Portobello Road

Street where the riches of ages are stowed

Artifacts to glorify our regal abode

Are hidden in the flotsam in Portobello Road

You’ll find what you want in the Portobello Road

Tokens and treasures, yesterdays pleasures

Cheap imitations of heirlooms of old

Dented and tarnished, scarred and unvarnished

In old Portobello they’re bought and they’re sold

Portobello Road, Portobello Road

Street where the riches of ages are stowed

Artifacts to glorify a regal abode

Are hidden in the flotsam in Portobello road.

You’ll find what you want in the Portobello Road

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The Whipple Museum of Science History

Posted on August 9, 2013 10:09 pm by Kerri Comment

This is a replica of an 18th century Grand Orrery. It shows all of the planets and moons that were known at the time, and they orbit around the sun at the correct relative speeds.

A set of cannons that fire projectiles using electrostatic force built up on the metal balls.

19th century oscillograph. It displayed electrical waveforms.

I had no idea they needed a special tool for that.

Why are electronic calculators not this cute?

This is why you should never buy school supplies at the dollar store.

Electrodes for a 1936 cyclotron. The particles were inserted in the gap between them to be accelerated.

Kerri looking through camera microscope.

3D glass models of fungi. The one on the left is the grey, furry mold you get on fruits like strawberries. The one on the right makes your lettuce leaves go yellow and eventually turn soft.

Kerri looking through a very old telescope

Kerri is too short to reach a very, very old telescope.

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Cambridge Museum of Archaeology

Posted on August 9, 2013 6:56 pm by Kerri Comment

Another small museum in Cambridge.

Collection of stone tools from 100,000 BC to 2,500 BC.

Artifacts from Borneo. The crazy eyed guy is a horned crocodile from the front of a war canoe.

More stone age tools.

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