A day out downtown

It's the second week of the Easter break and although I have a few assignments due in the next couple of weeks I'm trying to also make time for getting out and about while Keith is on holiday. We've had good weather here in London the last few days and it's quite warm and (almost) summery. We decided to go down to the Imperial War Museum this afternoon which is near the Elephant & Castle tube station in the southern part of Central London. The museum is focused on conflicts in the 20th century, particularly WWI and WWII. It also has two effective recreations: "the Trench experience" and "the Blitz experience" about the London Blitz in 1940-41. It's a very large and impressive museum and there was much more than we were able to see in the afternoon so we will try to return again in the future. Another interesting aspect of the museum is that it's housed in the former Bethlem Royal Hospital, a psychiatric hospital that gave us the expression "bedlam" to describe chaotic situations (however it's not the original hospital, but the one built in the early 19th century).