Bloomsbury Walk

I found this walk very enjoyable. We started out from the tube station and walked to the British Museum. Our group stopped there for a few hours to look at some of the exhibits. I really enjoyed seeing the old bronze weapons and armor in some of the exhibits. One of the coolest exhibits was that of a bog body. It was crazy to see how the chemicals in the bog preserved the body so well that it was still very easy to tell it was a body. Jaynann and I also went to the part of the museum that had some of the Egyptian exhibits with the mummies. We were able to see how the bodies were preserved through the dryness of the desert. It was neat to see the different ways that preserved both bodies.

After leaving the museum we continued on our walk through Russell Square Gardens. The garden was very open and green with a beautiful fountain in the middle. It also had this cute cafe that we stopped at to get some Paninis for lunch. Right across from Russell Square Gardens we saw Hotel Russell. It was this really neat looking building with these pretty vivid turquoise parapets. We saw Brunswick Square where many famous writers used to share a house. Virginia Woolf was among one of those writers. I thought that was neat because I was able to learn a lot about Virginia Woolf last semester in one of my English classes and I did a presentation on her. 

One of the things that I really enjoyed about the walk was going through St. George's park. It was neat seeing all the old tombstones from when it was a cemetery. I really enjoyed how green and beautiful the park was. We saw a group of people doing laps around the park. When we asked them what they were running for they said for, "healthy living". That made me smile. Our group got a picture taken here and we met a new friend named Piper. He was this really cute white puppy. 

I also really enjoyed walking past all of the hospitals and the children's hospital. We passed many children that were going to that hospital and even a leukemia clinic The hospital reminded me of Primary Children's or Shriners in Salt Lake that I often visited while growing up. So, it made my feel for those kids that were going into the hospital. In the book it mentions that in 1852 since there was no hospital places for children about 20,000 kids were dying under the age of 10 each year. That made me so sad and grateful for the hospitals, doctors and medicine that we have today.

I almost forgot Charles Dickens' house. That was pretty neat to see too.

I really enjoyed this walk and the places we got to see that I probably wouldn't have seen otherwise.