Down the Thames to Greenwhich Village

Arriving at Greenwhich we first walked past the Naval Museum, which has a display out front showing the various styles of anchors used throughout the ages.

Walking up the hill to Greenwhich Observatory we paused to snap a picture of the city below. The majestic building in the middle is the Naval Museum, and the red arrow at the right points to the Millenium Dome.

The Greenwhich Observatory had lots of stuff about time-keeping and longitude, but very little about astronomy. Still, as seems to be traditional, I stood on the International Date Line while Elisabeth took my picture.

On the way back to catch our boat we came across the Cutty Sark, which looked so cool we just had to miss our boat to take pictures and go aboard. Luckily there was another boat leaving in an hour, so we weren't trapped in Greenwhich forever.

The Cutty Sark was a tea-runner, racing halfway across the globe to be the first to bring the new season's tea from India back to the rabid tea-drinkers of England. A display on the Cutty Sark said that on average the English consume 4 cups of tea per day per person, but at Auntie Marjorie's house it's more like 8.

While we were there pirates attacked Greenwhich and I was forced to grab the wheel and outsnarl the dread foes.

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