A trip to the Foyle Reading Room of The Royal Geographical Society (RGS) this morning marked the final program visit of our time in London. While it's sad to see our time coming to a close, it was lovely to spend the morning with Eugene Rae, the principal librarian of the reading room. I, unfortunately, did not bring my phone (ie. camera) into the room and so do not have photographs of this experience. Apologies for a text filled blog post! By Steve Cadman [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons On a large table in the reading room, Eugene laid out many documents and facsimiles from the RGS archive. Using these to illustrate his stories, he told us about s ome of the grander voyages undertaken by members of the society. Using photographs of key players, maps highlighted with routes, and genuine artifacts he told us about the journey to find the Northwest Passage, the African expedition to find the root of the Nile River,
Panorama of the main square Up close and personal with the castle Joy from street fair perogies and beer The Memorial to the Victims of Communism by sculptor Olbram Zoubek and architects Jan Kerel and Zdeněk Holzel John Lennon Wall We didn't know whether or not you were encouraged to eat the pub pretzels, so took photos instead Token night shot of the Prague Castle and Charles Bridge because it's just so darn pretty We spent the last day in Prague wandering around Divoká Šárka before our flight