On the bright side, a cannibal probably wouldn't like them either.

I hate my legs right now. I hate them so much that I'm actually almost looking forward to spending most of tomorrow on a bus up to Edinburgh. I started my walk at about 09:00 this morning, completely forgetting how big London is. If the link works, this is a rough (and much more efficient) map of my route from today. I didn't actually start at the British Museum, but my hostel is literally right around the corner from it... I can look out my window and see one of the wings right across the street. So, in order: St. Paul's, Millennium Bridge, London Bridge, Tower of London, Tower Bridge, London Bridge again, the Fire Monument, then back past the hostel to the British Library at about 17:30. I'm a bit disappointed that I forgot my pedometer at home (although it's fairly uncomfortable, so I guess it's not all bad), but Google Maps estimated the total distance at 11.9 miles. I'm thinking I should have gotten in a little more practice before I came... my 4 mile walks around the outside of Waterville just aren't cutting it.

And now we're on to the part where I use bullet points, because I still have to eat and make sure I'm packed up, since I'm leaving pretty early tomorrow.

British Library Sightings

• first draft of Handel's "Messiah"
• Mozart's wedding contract
• Beethoven's tuning fork
• Photo of Scott's Antarctic expedition team, as well as his journal
• Charles Dodgson's (aka Lewis Carroll) diaries
• notes on architecture by da Vinci
• a Gutenburg Bible
• the Dering Roll (c. 1270), which contains 324 English coats of arms.
• the Magna Carta (turns out there are actually 4 original copies; two at the museum, and the others at different locations in England)

That's not all, but I left out most of the stuff that I recognized from last time. And yes, I did say hello to Austen's desk and manuscript for you, Alyssa.

Also, pictures! I'm too tired/sore to try cramming them into a blog post, so head on over here to see them in all their glory. Once again, you may have to change the .co.uk to .com... I'm really not sure how that'll work. I'll attempt to post at least a few from each stop, but most of them probably won't go up until I get home.