The British Library Is for Early Birds

October 20: If you're an early bird like me, consider visiting the British Library just before you visit the British Museum.  They're one Tube stop away from each other or a 20-minute walk through nice neighborhoods.  The Library exhibition gallery also opens at 9:30 AM, which is 30 minutes before the British Museum. 

Depending on your interest in literature, it should take only half-an-hour to an hour to negotiate the main room: Sir John Ritblatt Gallery - Treasures of the British Library.

Among the highlights for us were a Shakespeare First Folio, maps of the ancient world, Alice-in-Wonderland manuscripts and books, a Caxton Chaucer and the Magna Carta.  If these treasures are meaningless to you, the Library is a good place to learn about their importance.