OlympicTorch

We began the day early but not as early as on Monday, heading again to King’s Lynn. Starting at Lynn Museum, we discover that admission was free today because the Olympic Torch was coming through town at noon. The main attraction at the museum was about Seahenge, a Bronze Age structure constructed in the spring of 2049 BC revealed on a Norfolk beach in 1998. Archeologists can date it so precisely by the tree rings. The museum did offer some useful information regarding medieval Lynn and Walsingham, particularly about pilgrim badges, leaden souvenirs which were collected by pilgrims as proof of their pilgrimage. The gift shop offered a book on the subject, which Meisha bought. I stopped to speak with a young man who was putting up a temporary display of World War II paraphernalia from American soldiers who were stationed in Norfolk. He had been a history teacher who began collecting historical objects as a hobby until that hobby became a career. The museum was across the way from a Sainbury store, one of the large grocery chains so we bought our lunch there to eat in the car because the torch was going to pass in front of where we parked the car—more serendipity! In this shot Meisha is holding the Union Jacks I bought for the girls.