Budget holidays in England!

I had heard London had a variety of museums and unusual places to visit and being an addict of the unconventional, I had a dream of visiting London sometime even if as in a vacation. Yet when I dreamt of going to London last year, the budget seemed out of hands. Being a student my budget could not exceed more than 100 pounds a day even if I travelled there for 4 days. Then, I stumbled into some travel sites and travel guides like Trip Tromp and Trip advisor. The information provided there really proved helpful and I was on my way to London soon!

The 4 day vacation of London proved more than exhilarating. I needed something different from the conventional in my budget trip. I got more than I could expect! What would you do if you found yourself walking among dead corpses and organs beside you? Not a good feeling, eh? Well when I visited the Hunterian museum, and saw different organs of humans preserved in jars it creeped me out at first too! But then I came to realise just how marvellous and how advanced our medical science is. You can even see, among the exciting exhibits, Babbage's brain and Churchill’s dentures.

Then there is Weiner library. Two people who ran away from Nazi Germany and went to Amsterdam in 1933 opened this library. The library consists of information about events that transpired right from 1933 and contains eyewitness documents, books and pamphlets of those times. The library had a significant historical role to play, being instrumental in helping to punish the guilty of the Nazi war crimes. It is perhaps the only library in the world which used its extensive collections on National Socialism and the Third Reich to provide material to the United Nations War Crimes Commission and bringing war criminals to justice after World War II. It opened my eyes of how gruesome the times then were. My vacation got a new insight and reason there.

Around 67,000 specimens of the whole of the Animal Kingdom present in one building – It is the Grant museum, the only remaining university zoological museum in London. When you enter don’t be surprised by scenes like a room stuffed with skeletons of all the animal kingdom from floor to ceiling as it is not the only bizarre thing there, there are monkey skeletons peering at you through the balconies too! My stay at this exotic place was a true experience to remember.

Perhaps the common people are so engrossed going by hearsay and present tourist spots, that not many visit these places. Yet these are way better than museums which many0of0the-times take their ‘display items’ from the country their countries had invaded in the past. All said, perhaps my vacation trip with my limited budget would have not been as smooth as it was had I not referred to travel guides like Trip tromp and Trip advisor. They really come in handy in showing you how best to plan a vacation and how different things come together to make a perfect vacation.