Pompeii and Herculaneum

Thursday 25 July

We had previously booked 2 slots at 11.10 am for the Pompeii & Herculaneum exhibition at The British Museum, so we set off early to walk to Aldgate station to catch the no.25 bus.

 

At the British Museum

 (I saw a sign for “Petticoat Lane Market”, and I realised that we were now staying less than a mile from where I was interviewed and hired into the computer business 50 years ago).

The Pompeii Exhibition

A  Pompeii family, from a plaster cast



The Pompeii exhibition was excellent, and we saw as much of the rest of the museum as energy permitted before meandering back to the bus via Jeremy’s restaurant on Kingsway.

We declined an invitation to a busy pontoon party, and spent the rest of the day relaxing on the boat, gathering up enough stamina  for the weekend. (All the walking has caught up with us, so we need to recharge our batteries)

A pontoon party in the East Dock

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We had another nice (and economical) dinner in the pub / restaurant across the way, and then  filled out the evening with 2 more episodes of “The West Wing”.