Saturday, June 12, 2010

Getting the Cuban visa only took a few minutes, all I needed was a photocopy of my passport, an address of a location for my first three nights, form needed filling in and I needed to pay £15 for the actual visa. All sorted and I was able to relax in the knowledge that I will at least be able to go to Cuba problem free. After sorting my visa out I didn't want to go home so early so I stayed with Frank and went to check out the British museum. Whilst in there we had a look if they had any Inca artefacts but they didn't, the native American things they had were from North American or from around Mexico. Frank told me of an exhibition there that is just about clocks and watched, I have to admit, I am interested in clockwork mechanisms and old watches so I was quite excited about checking it out, I don't think I had ever been there either. It was a very interesting exhibition, I would recommend it for anybody with a slight enthusiasm of watches or clocks, even time in general. The best part had to be the ball bearing clock, it was a big clock in a glass dome but instead of having a pendulum or weights and counterweights, it had a ball bearing rolling along a specially grooved piece the shifted the weight when the ball bearing got to either side and that wound up the clockwork mechanism.

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