england #5, and a ferry ride to greenwich in The England Chronicles - October 2010

After the London Eye, we took advantage of another London Pass Attraction, and rode the City Cruise ferry to Greenwich. Since everything took about a quadrillion times longer than we expected, we ended up having very little time to spend in Greenwich, home of all sorts of interesting stuff, including Greenwich Mean Time, a Royal Park, the former Royal Observatory which is now an astronomy museum, and a great little town center. All we really did was walk around a little bit in the town center, and have dinner in a tiny Thai dive that had the Best.Noodles.EVER. By then we had to catch the return ferry. There’s no tube station, although there are rail stops and buses- the ferry was the most convenient for us, though.

We planned to return to Greenwich on the weekend, when there’s a big market. We didn’t ever return. It’s on my list of Places To Go Back To Next Time.

Waiting for the ferry at London Eye:

The ferry ride was very pleasant, and very interesting. And perhaps best of all, we were on the ferry during one of the shockingly few rainy periods we encountered. Much to our vast surprise, it hardly rained the entire time, and when it did we were always inside. It rained during our ferry ride, it rained the day we drove from the canal boat to Clevedon, and I think it rained one other time when we were doing something inside. During the London week it was mostly sunny, although, oddly, VERY chilly. Unusually chilly. We could see our breath several mornings while walking to the Tube, and there was frost more than once. Even during the days it often didn’t get out of the 40’s. So I spent most of the trip in sweaters with a fleece vest over top, and my winter jacket over that. But the lack of rain was extremely nice, as were all the very sunny days.

But I digress. Here we go, on the ferry:

Actually, the weather was kind of weird on the ferry ride. Rain/Sun/Rain/Sun/Rain/Clouds/Blue Sky/Rain…..

Sadly I didn’t get a whole lot of Greenwich pictures thanks to Bizarro Rain, which would go away and come back and go away and come back ….

There was a great little graveyard, though. That we rushed by!

And creepy angels!

I found this very interesting- when I was a child I was pretty much obsessed with a western called The High Chaparral. Okay, I admit I STILL like the episodes I’ve seen in recent years – it was a very well done show, by the same guy that produced Bonanza. And it’s held up well over the many years. But I digress- how surprising! I was astonished to see this restaurant:

I don’t know if it actually had anything to do with the fairly obscure show from the 60s — we didn’t go in. But it was fun to see.

No pictures on the return ferry, as it was nearly dark and rainy again. But when we got to Waterloo Station, the rain had cleared so I took advantage of the amazing London Lights –

Next stop — Leicester Square and Piccadilly Circus!

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