My visit to the British Library has been perhaps one of my favorite days so far. I am finding myslef wanting to go off a lot more alone, just taking my time exploring the city on my time. One of my most recent trips alone was to the world famous British Library. Like everything in London, it was HUGE. In it are kept some of the world's most famous artifacts.. yada, yada, yada. Most of these artifacts were literary marvels and acheivements. Lost of religious texts,like the Gutenberg Bible, one of the first handwritten Qurans, and several 4th century Buhddist scrolls. These things were kept in AMAZING shape for being so old. I could clearly see the Latin or early English writing on them. I saw lots of first drafts of some of the most famous texts, Like Virginia Woolf's 'Mrs. Dalloway' and Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland'. I also saw the library's most prized possession too, the manga carta. There were 4 documents but 3 were destroyed in a fire (geez these Brits have a lot os fires!). The one on desplay was so old and damaged that I couldn't read any of the text. It was amazing to see the first attempts to awknowledge civil rights. This was the charter that really started it all for struggling people. It was truly a treasure to see, even if I couldn't read it.