Bath, on the River Avon

One of King Bladud’s Pigs in Bath. According to legend, Bladud was a Briton who came back from study abroad in Athens with leprosy and wound up a swineherd. He noticed that pigs who lolled in a certain patch of warm mud didn’t get skin diseases, so he tried the mud himself. It cured him of his leprosy, he became prince again, and he founded Bath.

Bath Abbey

The Roman Baths and Bath Abbey

Hieratic text at the Ashmolean Museum

Citterns at the Ashmolean

Winged Assyrian holding a goat at the British Museum

Athena and Hephaestus on the Elgin (Parthenon) marbles at the British Museum

Beaver on a Nisga’a totem pole at the British Museum

Me with a lion in Trafalgar Square

Big Ben

Parliament

Me and the London Eye

Westminster Abbey

At Foyles, a bookshop on Charing Cross Road