We slept late, as usual. Hey, blow me! We're on vacation!
The wife whipped up a tasty breakfast at new flat in the Greenwich Millenium Village (GMV). Similar appliances to the other flat, but a lot more room. Another French Press in this unit. I guess you can call it a "coffee maker" although it leaves a load of sludge in your coffee cup, which is kinda disgusting.
It was cloudy again, as usual, with only a smattering of rain, so we walked 15 steps to the nearby Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park.
It's basically a swamp with a lot of wildlife and several trails.
At least the Brits practice conservation. They don't subscribe to the "God won't let us fuck up the planet" attitude prevalent in so many Americans.
One path in the Ecology Park leads to the Thames Path, which is basically a river walk for miles and miles and miles along the Thames River. On both sides. Awesome.
We walked up the Thames Path to the Emirates Air Line sky tram and the O2 arena, which is right next door to the North Greenwich underground Tube station. Some of the sky was actually blue!
This station also serves as the launch point for several bus lines, and we caught London Bus Route #129 over to Greenwich Village.
It starts raining again, naturally. We visited the Greenwich Market and strolled along Greenwich Church Street for awhile before stopping in a Gourmet Burger Kitchen (GBK), another restaurant chain which makes some damn good burgers. Hamburger. Lamburger. Buffaloburger. You name it. Grass-fed, sustainable. Those damn Brits.
After lunch we wandered on the Royal Observatory grounds for awhile, in the rain, eventually finding the actual Observatory. A program called "We Are Aliens!" was playing in the Planetarium, so we bought a couple of tickets.
Wow, another break in the rain. It's a pretty nice view from the top of the hill at the Observatory.
One of the features of this Royal Observatory is the Greenwich Mean Time Meridian, where you can stand on either side of the so-called Eastern Hemisphere and the Western Hemisphere. That's pretty silly. It's the actual line of GMT. By the time we got to here, they were closing down and we didn't want to pay 7 GBP just to straddle the line and then be rushed out. So I took this picture of other people straddling the line.
Walked back down the hill and caught the 129 bus back to the GMV.
Since the weather was its usual suckiness, we stayed in and had another pizza dinner from the food store next door. Surprisingly good for 3 GBP.
The wife whipped up a tasty breakfast at new flat in the Greenwich Millenium Village (GMV). Similar appliances to the other flat, but a lot more room. Another French Press in this unit. I guess you can call it a "coffee maker" although it leaves a load of sludge in your coffee cup, which is kinda disgusting.
It was cloudy again, as usual, with only a smattering of rain, so we walked 15 steps to the nearby Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park.
It's basically a swamp with a lot of wildlife and several trails.
At least the Brits practice conservation. They don't subscribe to the "God won't let us fuck up the planet" attitude prevalent in so many Americans.
One path in the Ecology Park leads to the Thames Path, which is basically a river walk for miles and miles and miles along the Thames River. On both sides. Awesome.
We walked up the Thames Path to the Emirates Air Line sky tram and the O2 arena, which is right next door to the North Greenwich underground Tube station. Some of the sky was actually blue!
This station also serves as the launch point for several bus lines, and we caught London Bus Route #129 over to Greenwich Village.
It starts raining again, naturally. We visited the Greenwich Market and strolled along Greenwich Church Street for awhile before stopping in a Gourmet Burger Kitchen (GBK), another restaurant chain which makes some damn good burgers. Hamburger. Lamburger. Buffaloburger. You name it. Grass-fed, sustainable. Those damn Brits.
After lunch we wandered on the Royal Observatory grounds for awhile, in the rain, eventually finding the actual Observatory. A program called "We Are Aliens!" was playing in the Planetarium, so we bought a couple of tickets.
Wow, another break in the rain. It's a pretty nice view from the top of the hill at the Observatory.
One of the features of this Royal Observatory is the Greenwich Mean Time Meridian, where you can stand on either side of the so-called Eastern Hemisphere and the Western Hemisphere. That's pretty silly. It's the actual line of GMT. By the time we got to here, they were closing down and we didn't want to pay 7 GBP just to straddle the line and then be rushed out. So I took this picture of other people straddling the line.
Walked back down the hill and caught the 129 bus back to the GMV.
Since the weather was its usual suckiness, we stayed in and had another pizza dinner from the food store next door. Surprisingly good for 3 GBP.
That's it. Some walking. Some shopping. Some ooo-ing and aahhh-ing. Some eating. ZZZzzzzzz........
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