We arrived in London mid-morning Tuesday, dropped our suitcases at our hotel, and walked to the British Museum. Lord Elgin removed some of the friezes from the Parthenon and sold them to the British government. We were surprised how much we learned. The friezes were mounted at eye-level, which made them much easier to see in detail. They also had a couple of short movies explaining what we were looking at. The most whimsical thing we saw was a statue that for all the world looked like it was made with ancient Lego blocks.

(Could this be a 2,500 year-old Lego block?) 

While we were there, we stumbled on an ancient clock exhibit. We saw some very old clocks, back to the 1500s. We also saw some chronometers, which is our objective for Wednesday.