beccaelizabeth's dreamwidth journal

I went to the V&A museum and looked at Many Things
I saw the jewellery room and the asian rooms except for china which I think was closed
I saw very very very many shiny things
and buddhas
and shiny buddhas

and now I has tired


to get there takes 4 hours. to get back takes 4 hours. looking around while there was 4.75 hours. Before all that there were two hours of waking up, and after all of that there have been two hours of phoning mum to prove I survived it and then having a bath because London is very full of London. And humans. MANY humans. Possibly more than in my whole home town crowded in to the train station today. I took my coat off for thermal regulation like a sensible person but then there were lots of humans and lots of London and I spent the last hour coming home on the train thinking of having a bath.

so now I'm typing this and waiting for food to microwave. then I must wait for it to cool.

long day is loooooong.


but I saw shiny shiny shiny shiny shiny. They reckoned they have 3500 things and since I looked at all the ones that were out I may have seen that many. diamonds and rubies and amethysts and sapphires and many things I forget the names of right now. some my favourite things though were in steel or iron. in the jewellery room. very nice stuff.

also I saw a suit of chain mail made with three different color metals in complicated zig zag patterns. I got my torch out so I could see it more better in detail. Was very good.

In the India room there were stone geometric patterns you could see through, really really nice.

I bought postcards but I can't show them on the computer. You can look on the V&A website though. They have many shiny things there.

But seeing them in person was worth the travel.