We had a lovely day with Evan, an Iowa friend who now works here as a landscape architect. We met him and his huge sweet dog Freddy in Blackheath (at yet another Gail’s bakery) on a crisp sunny morning. More blue sky!
We walked around the pretty lanes, past charming homes and shops in the little village, then across the green into Greenwich, which I haven’t visited in decades and always seems so different than elsewhere in London.
We enjoyed the astonishing view from near the Greenwich observatory (home of Greenwich mean time), with the nearest cluster of skyscrapers being docklands, and the city of London and central London in the distance, in another bend in the Thames. We ate at a pho restaurant in Greenwich and walked around the elegant massive buildings that make up the university in the former Royal naval college. Final stop the elegant Trafalgar Tavern, with a fire roaring in the fireplace, elegant maps on the wall, spectacular views of the Thames, with the Uber taxi and the old school cutty sark.
To get from southwest to southeast London was an adventure, requiring 3 connections each way on a variety of British rail trains, undergrounds lines, the overground and light rail, passing through stop I’d never heard of (nunhead!) and the amazingly built up Canary Wharf at Docklands.
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