Anybody got the time???

Today both PetDoc and Noise had to go to work so the Bluffdwellers did a little sightseeing on their own. We caught the tube down to Westminster and hopped on a tour boat to Greenwich. The boat had an open deck on the top and it was a gorgeous sunny day so we very much enjoyed to hour-long trip down the Thames. That's not the London Eye in the background but a huge wheel at Greenwich.

Once at Greenwich, we had a look around the Royal Naval College and then dropped into a pub for lunch. After lunch we headed up to the observatory to experience the tourist 'prime meridian' experience (one foot in the western hemisphere - the other in the eastern). Then we went through the Maritime Museum which contained, among many other interesting displays, the uniform Nelson was wearing when he was fatally wounded at Trafalgar. The original painting "The Death of Nelson" is also on display.

From Greenwich we took a combination of train and tube to Wimbledon, where we had a tour of PetDoc's clinic. Now when she describes things at work we'll have a mental image to go along. She then gave us a bit of a tour of Wimbledon Village (as much as our legs would stand - it's a long hike (if you've just been up to the observatory at Greenwich) from the tube to PetDoc's clinic). So we stopped in a pub for sustinence (are you beginning to see a pattern here?!).

Noise met us and we had pizza at Napule, at Fulham Broadway, where they serve pizza cooked in a wood-fired oven and served by the metre. Each of us had a different kind so the table was quite an array of sights and smells.

Tomorrow we're off early to pick up the rental car, drop off Buggy, and then a 6-hour drive to Penzance. We're expecting three sunny, hot days so we can enjoy the beaches of Cornwall. Yeah, right!!!