I have spent the last few days touring London with a friend from New York City. We covered the Tate Modern, Buckingham Palace, the Houses of Parliament, Trafalgar Square, Tower Bridge, Tower of London, Camden Market, Covent Garden and all of the other typical places you would visit.
My friend was amazed by scale of all of the Museums and Galleries with their endless collections highlighting numerous historical events from around the world. I couldn’t help but draw a comparison to my visit to the Pacific island of Vanuatu earlier this year, and its number one ‘landmark’ that every tourist was encouraged to visit, their World War II Museum.
The largest collection of WWII coke bottles in the entire Pacific
The Museum was, quite literally, a shack on the beach – yet its elderly owner had an infectious enthusiasm for his collection of memorabilia from WWII and proudly announced that he had collected more coke bottles from WWII than anywhere else in the entire Pacific.
London may be famous for its landmarks, but we should remind ourselves that that there are so many other snapshots of history and hidden treasures out there. And similarly, while it is fantastic to focus on large achievements it is just as important to look for and celebrate the countless number of small wins made by enthusiastic people across the organisation.
