Brick Lane, Camden Shopping, and Mummies

Brick Lane is a melting pot and literally a long brick lane of many curry houses. It's a vibrant part of London, and restaurant workers will stand in doorways enticing you to enter their curry house. Nik was a gentleman and politely turned down all offers for dinner, although one covertly got passed him and purred to Mary and I, "Hello my ladies. How about some curry?"


We ate at a BBC recommended curry house, and the food was delicious!

London neighborhoods have a main shopping street called the "high street" and is typically stylish and chic. The American equivalent would be a Main Street. I've visited one of the best London Bookstores at Marylebone High Street and have been in happy active pursuit of the many shopping districts London offers. Regent Street is one of the main and high-end shopping streets in London's West End.

Camden Market. It was orginally a crafts market but evolved into hundreds upon hundreds of vendors/stalls indoors and outdoors of converted horse stables selling everything from London souvenirs to antiques to Gothic clothing. It has a mixed bohemian, punk, and grunge feel and is just really lively to walk through!

Brunch - to the left is "Soft Boiled Eggs and Soldiers," apparently a throwback breakfast dish to the British child's past. You crack the egg, then dip the pieces of bread -- soldiers -- into the egg. Charming, no?

My breakfast was the eggs benedict. Yum.




The British Museum

The British Museum has an extensive Egyptian as well as Greek and Assyrian collection. It was very impressive, and that was the first time I've seen an Egyptian sarcophagus. And not to mention, the Rosetta Stone.

The Rosetta Stone among a plethora of schoolchildren

 Next, we're off to Paris!