Queen's House London

Seguindo a sugestão dos Maddens, peguei o DLR Railway para Canary Wharf.
Saltei em Island Gardens e passeei pelo jardins com uma bela vista para o Rio Thames e Greenwich. Lá peguei o túnel para pedestres, construído em 1830, que passa por debaixo do rio e fui até o outro lado, chegando em Greenwich.
Tirei algumas fotos na margem do rio e …

Our last tour day and we're off to Cambridge.

Albeit a little slower than we had hoped owing to a million miles of traffic on the motorways, but, we finally made it into England’s most prestigious seat of learning. Where generations have been educated at what has been repeatedly voted the world’s best university. While the …

Well - what a day!!! The tubes were hit with a strike - some lines closed, some stations closed. We had to skip our Abbey Road visit (have to catch it next time!!). Brekky didn't start till 78.30am, so it was a later start than planned. We managed to travel to the next station, then change lines to get us to Westminster. We found our Thames River …

Another wonderful sunny day in London. Wow, we are lucky. Have not encountered one drop of rain. I cannot complain one bit, it is superb Spring weather.
On today`s itinerary, we are off Greenwich. Rather than take a long tube or DLR ride, we have opted to take the Thames Clipper which is a river commuter service between Woolwich and the piers …

... time-telling, and the Longitude prize. We left the observatory, and walked back down the hill. Then we went through the Queen's House, an important building because it was the first Palladian building in England, built by Inigo Jones, and very important. ...

... are definately related! You can't say you have experienced a "big crowd" until you have attempted to walk underneath the London Eye on a Saturday morning! Even more importantly, you can't say you've been entertained by an Aussie girl who hates crowds ...

... Bill Wyman from The Rolling Stones Sticky Finger restaurant. There was cool memorabilia all over the walls! Freddy Mercury from Queen's house, with his front door covered in graffiti, Jimmy Page's house that looked like a little castle The ...

... how abysmal the exchange rate is. Still tired from the previous night's shenanigans, I set down to take a nap in front of the Queen's house. After the guards let me know what a dim view they take concerning that sort of thing, I stumbled off and right ...

... light rail. Saw the old naval college, the National Maritime Museum and most importantly, my first obviously Palladian style mansion, Queen's House. Walked up to the Royal Observatory and stepped on the prime meridian. Came back to Greenwich town and had ...

... we didn't make it to the rose garden and I honestly didn't know whether roses would be blooming or not. Instead, we went to the Queen's house (not the current queen, a queen from the 1600 or 1700's) and walked through the house which is now a ...

... to see more, but time wouldn't allow. Karla, Dan & Susan finished the bus tour late in the day and capped it off at the Queen's house -- Buckingham Palace. (we didn't want to be a bother, so we didn't go in....just took a few pics and slipped out the ...

... more about his other exploits (they focused mainly on Trafalgar).  After going through the maritime museum, I walked through the Queen's House.  This building also dates way back to the 1600s, and today houses a collection of maritime art ...

... though the parent chaperones did).  After that, we were on our own.  We climbed Observatory Hill, walked around Queen's House, and did a quick whip through the National Maritime Museum, which had a DELICIOUS exhibit on passenger ships--photos, ...

... the Cutty Shark) was still under construction after it burnt down recently. We walked along the river to the palace and the Queen's house, which were beautiful, and then around to Greenwich park. Just before 1pm, a red ball on the top of the Observatory ...