Hotel Rosetta

... il British Museum... Enorme, bellissimo sia fuori che dentro. Volevamo vedere o meglio volevo vedere la celebre Rosetta Stone... È favolosa è come me l'aspettavo. Souvenir d'obbligo la miniatura della stele. Abbiamo visto anche la collezione egizia ...

... worth it. Amazingly enough we have found 3 great places that serve gluten-free pizza and pasta - made fresh. Finished Level 1 Italian Rosetta Stone the day before we left. I still can't speak Italian very well, but I can read and understand well ...

... and prefer the more traditional decor.   Our next stop was the British Museum.  We only stayed long enough to see the Rosetta Stone and some of the Greek and Roman statues.  Hubby really wasn't into this and I've been before, so we headed ...

... like the one in the Museum of Natural History (the one there is awesome and huge!). Also at the museum is the real Rosetta Stone.  Also, we ate English food, which is pretty good.  I had fish and chips and chicken in gravy while Charlotte had ...

... the room, and it is tiny as well.  We were surprised to find out what a "double" meant to the owners of the Hotel Rosetta.  There are two beds, but they are about the size of exam tables at your doctor's office, only a little longer.  Unfortunately, ...

... thing you see when you enter the room is THE Rosetta Stone.  Not a copy.  Not a fake.  The actual Rosetta Stone, discovered by Napoleons Army in 1799.  For all the unfathomable treasures lying within the museum, the stone is far and ...

... that pretty much every exhibit   (relative to this conversation) at the British Museum including its most famous, the Rosetta Stone, were stolen from Egypt at some point (the latter actually taken from the French after the Capitulation of Alexandria ...

... finally translated the writings on the walls of the Pyramids, the Valley of the Kings, all the archeological sites in Egypt. The Rosetta Stone loosed the tongues of the ancient Egyptians, and they now can communicate with us, just as they intended. And ...

... for the driver to see the road and everyone was driving with their hazard lights on.  We got to our hotel, the Hotel Tropicana Rosetta and were surprised to find out that it was an "all inclusive" resort.  They gave us little green wristbands ...

... it was off to the British Museum! Since we didn’t have enough time, we had to pick key things to see. In our mind, the Rosetta stone was a tablet slightly larger than an ipad. In reality, it’s quite large; about 45" x 28.5” x 11”. ...

... ; I had intended to get the writing covered up anyway.  It's a good day to relax and use my Rosetta stone, I had decided.   In through the hotel door walks a man, a westerner who looked much more confident than me.  He looked at me, typing ...

... my art class.  I felt really smart!  Haha.  Rob always makes it fun too, so it was great.  We even got to see the Rosetta Stone, which I though was so cool!!!  After the museum, I met up with Cara and Dan, and we headed to Leicester Square to try and ...

... and I was snugly in my room by that time, with a fully charged battery on my computer.  I clicked on the pirate Rosetta Stone, studied Arabic for about five minutes, then passed out, dead to the world, a world increasingly complex and disorienting. ...

Apologies to the avid readers (Claire, Rosetta, Eddie, Mrs Miller, Natasha, Isobel, Sophie and Amanda to name a few) we've been so busy and haven't had chance to update the blog. After 5 months of travelling we needed a break! We had booked the hotel in ...

... ...I'm learning that Italian is very close to Spanish....too bad we don't know Spanish better! Deb keeps wanting to respond in German! I'm looking forward to finishing my Rosetta Stone, as I still feel connected to the German language! Anyway, buona ...

... is another great free place. Seriously, I saw so much amazing stuff my brain melted down. From the Elgin Marbles to The Rosetta Stone, to Sutton Hoo, to the Enlightenment you will find it all here. They even have these cool spots where volunteers bring ...

... to, with more real ancient artifacts than i thought I'd ever see. We were able to look at the Rossetta stone, THE Rosetta stone.  There were also collections upon collections of relics from every main culture in history.  Some of it just showed ...

... , I don't think we really learned anything! We moved from room to room, pointing out famous objects we recognized, like the Rosetta Stone, or exhibits that slightly peaked our interest, like mummies or Greek temples. Tara wanted to see some of the early ...

... .  Really, anything up to the late Middle Ages will keep me happy. Somehow, my mother and I managed to completely miss the Rosetta Stone in our haste to get to the Parthenon frieze.  Afterwards, I realised that the huge crowd of people we'd had ...

... for egg (tomago) in Japanese because one of the girls didn't want egg and the waiter didn't understand her. Yay for Rosetta Stone! Ha! We got back to the hotel just in time to meet up with the rest of the group to go out. We weren't going to eat, but ...

... not too far from Trafalgar Square.  I have spent the whole day in museums, starting out at the British Museum (Rosetta Stone, mummies...more historical stuff than you could ever see in one morning, plus a Michelangelo cartoon (Mom, ...