This was a great day – on my cousin Liz’s advice we took a boat down to Greenwich (where not nice (Mean) Time comes from).
I will get round to putting some of the audio commentary up – but the boat drivers take it in turns to narrate – and our guy was hilarious.
Above are pictures of Big Ben and Cleopatra’s needle.
Shakespeare’s globe theatre above there – and other sights of olde London town. Maaike had never visited London before – so that was extra fun. There’s just so much to see.
This was quite cute – the OXO building. So, I’m not sure what OXO did (if anything) before they made stock cubes.. but.. advertising wasn’t allowed on the river .. but OXO made their windows in the shape of the letters they wanted to advertise. Quite a clever work around!
Finally arrived into Greenwich itself. It’s a UNESCO site and just completely worth visiting. This is where the Greenwich meridian runs through – giving us Greenwich Mean Time(GMT). There’s far too much to talk about and I’m woefully out of date on the blog anyway so I’m not going to dwell too much.. suffice to say – worth a visit.
Then we walked back to my cousin Thomas’ where we had a perfect evening with my cousin Catherine who came to dinner. I really really miss getting to see much of Thomas and Catherine.. they’re the only cousins who are really close to my age – and are such wonderful people. We’ve always made an effort to meet up when we can – and I really look forward to the next time (whenever and wherever that may be!)
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