Getting Rosetta Stoned after visiting the Egyptian rooms at the British Museum in London.
The Idiot loves getting Rosetta Stoned at the British Museum.
But don’t worry. He’s not stretching or taking a nap on the actual Rosetta Stone. This is a duplicate in the Enlightenment room where the museum encourages visitors to touch the stone and get a visceral sense of Egyptian hieroglyphs.
About Joel
Joel Stratte-McClure has been a global trekker since the 1970s. He lived in France for over 30 years, working as a journalist, before he turned his attention to a unique life-time-project of walking the shores of the Mediterranean. The first 4,401 kilometers are explored in his inspirational and entertaining first book "The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean." The next 4,401 kilometers are covered in the gods-filled sequel, "The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and Magic on the Mediterranean,” published on Valentine's Day 2013. The last 4,401 kilometers will be discussed in the last book of the trilogy currently entitled "The Idiot and the Odyssey III: Alexander the Great Walks the Mediterranean."
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