Today we did a London Walking Tour to Greenwich. Not knowing much about Greenwich history, we figured a tour would be ideal.
We took the tube to BlackFriars to check out the Old Globe and buy tickets for tomorrow’s matinee. I am soooooo excited about this – I have been wanting to do this since before we left. By the way, the Circle Line is still a problem – today it there were severe delays due to a person being under the train platform. Hmmm… anyway, then we needed to find our way to Tower Hill to join our tour.
From Tower Hill we walked past the Tower of London to catch our boat. After 20 minutes of interesting commentary (including information about the various pubs, and stories of old walloping grounds, and a headnod to a place where Hemingway wrote one of his books) we arrive in Greenwich. It is a nice day – in the end I finish the day with a sunburn (and lose a backpack at the Kings Arms).
It was a fairly interesting tour but we were very distracted just before 1pm. Not so much because of the dropping of the ball – but because of the Royal event guide was occurring directly to our left. So while we wait to see the ball drop, our tour guide was perhaps imparting the most interesting information. But I’m sorry that I was distracted – watching the Royal event and trying to see who was there. Turns out it was the Queen’s husband, Prince Philip was there and someone else sighted Prince Andrew.
At 2 minutes before 1pm the ball is at the top and as it begins to drop it is 1pm. Very exciting huh? Well, we also had our picture taking at the prime meridian spanning the east and west hemisphere’s simultaneously.
We had lunch at the Kings Arms pub in Greenwich. That is where one of our backpacks got left behind (only lost my very fun and way cute INC jacket and Tom’s jacket and 2 waters and the backpack). This was Kyle’s backpack and he is very sad about it. We called but the backpack has vanished … oh well. It could have been worse.
To the right is a picture of the “1st shop in the world” (longitude 00′ 00.4W). Too bad it wasn’t a clothing store or else I might have purchased something!
