Portobello Road, Portobello Road; Street where the riches of ages are stowed

This morning we went to Sir John Soane’s Museum in London. John Soane was an architect in the mid 1700s who traveled all over the world and accumulated a huge collection of antiques. He put them all up in his house and it’s now a museum. He had original pieces of the Parthenon in his collection, as well as an Egyptian sarcophagus. The tour guide told us he bought what he liked- and he liked a lot! He didn’t even realize some pieces were so valuable. It was pretty neat.

Next we went to the British Museum, designed by the famous architect Sir Norman Foster. Here I saw the Rosetta Stone! We looked at a lot of Egyptian mummies and sculptures and such which I thought was interesting.

We went to this cool Italian restaurant for lunch called Kitchen Italia. I ordered a sort of tortellini filled with goat’s cheese. Soo good!

I didn't actually take this picture, but I really wanted to show a better picture of the entire entrance

Then we went window shopping at Portobello Road. They had the coolest jewelry and scarves! We found all sorts of little treasures, like these awesome rings made out of sea shells. I also enjoyed looking into the antique stores.