London - Day 5

The entrance to the British Museum, made to look
like the Pantheon.

Got up at 07:50, ate breakfast, prepared for the day, and left at around 09:20, going towards the British Museum, arriving there at a bit past 10:00. I had thought it was more like a paintings museum that I would quickly browse through, but it was all kinds of artifacts and old stuff made by humans throughout history. Most notably, I liked the Egypt exhibition, Greece/Rome, and Mexico (with the Aztecs and Mayans). I did not finish everything, so I will come back for Asia tomorrow, which should take about an hour to go through, two hours maximum.

A model of the Pantheon, as it would have been initially.

For lunch, I went to the museum restaurant. I saw the prices, but didn't really realize how expensive that was. There were a couple of food courts that I should have gone to instead. I took the vegetarian tortellini, and it was delicious, but the cream was just way too fat! I also asked for water, and they brought me a 500ml bottle (£1.50). The total was £18 (including service). I left the museum at about closing time - 17:30.

The first mechanical clock.

I didn't want to go all the way back to the hotel since the British Museum was about 30 minutes from the Comedy Store. It would have taken me about 2.75 hours. I thought I would have looked for a restaurant for a long time, but near the museum, there was this Byron restaurant which specializes in burgers. What a good opportunity to taste my first veggie burger! It was very good - the pattie had been replaced by a portobello mushroom, and it had a slice of brie. Very good! I also ate a small portion of tostitos + salsa + guacamole.

I left too early (exactly 18:00), so I stopped at a WaterStone to browse through some books, and ended up reading quite a few pages of Death Note.

A mummy. Yeah.

I arrived at the Comedy Store at 19:00, and waited for an hour for the show to begin. It was the same improvisation guys than sunday, and it was equally excellent. They did the same basic concepts, but since it was improvisation, everything's new all the time. I left at 22:00, stopped at Sainsbury's Local for some yogurts and a pastry, and arrived in my room at 23:00, where I ate some more.


In the surprising event that my family and I would want to have some fun someday and do some improvisation sketches, here are some of the concepts that can be done by non-professionals.

• Get an animal and a sports at random, have a TV presenter talking with "someone" who succeeded in training some of these animals in that sports, but that someone is 2 or 3 persons, all saying one word each at a time.
• Have 2 persons have a random position, play from the scene, when someone else says "freeze", he/she takes the place of someone in the scene, assumes the same position, and starts a new scene.
• Two people do a scene at random, and once in a while, the emotion theme changes at random, or the theatre type (? - action, comedy, silent, ...).
• Someone speaks another language and gesticulates to the "camera", while another translates for the crowd.
• Make a story with the characters appearing and leaving between scenes, with someone sitting and "reading the book".