Greenwich

Spent a wonderful afternoon exploring “Maritime Greenwich” today. There is so much to visit and when you get tired, there’s plenty of space to rest in Greenwich Park or along the riverside and admire the views.

This is definitely one area of London that I’ll want to re-visit!

Take your time here. The off-the-boat-hour-in-the-park-back-on-the-boat thing just doesn’t work. Come down to the quay, spend some time in the Maritime Museum, have some lunch in the Gypsy Moth (if you can find a table), spend the afternoon in the Observatory, go back up the river after a full day.

I stayed at a B&B in Greenwich while I was in London. Definitely worth a visit!

I was walking along the path on the other side of the Thames and ended up at the foot tunnel under the river to Greenwich, & figured I’d check it out, & I’m glad I did. The symmetry of the buildings of the naval college, the green of the lawns, the big hill and the observatory at the top of it, lunch at Goddards pie and mash—all so pleasing!

I’ve been to the Observatory several times but somehow haven’t got around to visiting the National Maritime Museum. Call myself British? Tchah.

go see the Observatory and the Prime Meridian, stand in both hemispheres at once!

A very nice, very green area, with lots of small speciality shops and resturants and plenty to see.

7 Sept. 1996
I took a boat tour up to Greenwich. We disembarked and I walked over to the Royal Naval College and the Maritime Museum and took pictures of it and the Queen’s House. The museum was all roped off with construction and so I didn’t bother to see if was open and didn’t go up to the observatory either. Then I went back into the village and had some lunch (a meat pie and mash). I looked in my guide book to see what else I could see and decided to walk up Croom’s Hill because it said “this is one of the best-kept 17th to early 19th century streets in London.”

I also saw in my book that General Wolfe was buried in St. Alfege’s church here and determined I would check it out. I went into the church and a man told me I only had a few minutes to look around as there was a wedding soon. The church looked so nice, all decked out in flowers for the wedding. I went right over to Wolfe’s tomb and had a look at it. There was a stone carved with his particulars on the wall, a brass plaque on the floor indicating the actual tomb underneath, a stained glass window, and a flag hanging from a pole that some dignitary (I forget who) broke over Wolfe’s place of death in Quebec and then brought back to his tomb.

The Cutty Sark is there in dry dock as a museum but instead of taking a tour of it, I decided to go aboard Chichester’s Gypsy Moth IV, which was also there. I read his book years ago about him sailing around the world non-stop, by himself, and it was a bit of a thrill to walk around his boat.

The centre of the earth, and the place of my birth- Greenwich has it all…

Greenwich is one of the most charming villages in London, making it a great day-trip for people who are staying in the centre.

The village is full of pubs, restaraunts and antique shops. There is very little tourist tat in-sight, and the people are more friendly than they are in the city.

The big attraction is the Greenwich Observatory. The Greenwich Meridian runs through the observatory- you can place your legs across the brass line and stand in two hemispheres.