The Museum of London and Portobello Road

Today Sarah D. and I went to the Museum of the London. This is, obviously, the museum that is all about the history of London. It starts with the time before the Romans came to the island (called London Before London) with fossils, animal bones, and so on. Then it goes into the Roman history and all the way into the 20th century. There were all sorts of cool things to look at. In the Victorian Era section they had Queen Victoria's coronation robe and an outfit from Prince Albert. Queen Victoria was a very small woman, of course when she was crowned queen she was only seventeen years old. She had to be between five foot and five foot, four inches.

Another thing that I really liked was the Victorian Walk. You walk through a recreated street of London with different types of shops like a grocer, a bank, a pharmacy, a toyshop, and so on. It was really cool.

After exploring the entire museum, we then left to go to Portobello Road. We got there a half hour before the street market officially closed. Portobello is slightly different than the other markets that I have been to while I've been in London. Among some of the usual bag and scarf stalls, there are food stalls as well. There were people selling meat, cheese, and a lot of fruit. I must say that some of the stuff did not smell all that good, especially some of the fruit. If you bought anything you would have eat it that day or else it would go bad. But over all Sarah and I had fun, and we did buy a few things.