Greenwich

Weather is beautiful today. After midday we headed to Greenwich. It's a town South East of London with a lot of open spaces and greeneries. That's our impression when we got there and the experience of driving 'out' of the built-up area to the open greeneries was quite surreal. The Greenwich Park seems to command the attention of everything around it and within this huge park are the Royal Conservatory (where the Greenwich Meridien Line is located) and the National Maritime Museum and the Queen's House. We only visited the park and the Royal Observatory during this visit. The kids have heard of it and were excited about standing on the spot where they can put one foot in the Western Hemisphere and the other in the Easter Hemisphere.


Finding a parking space was a challenge but after making a fews rounds up and down the Blackheat Avenue in the park, we got a space.

As with all other parks when the weather is great, the Greenwich Park was full with people and there seems to be a filming crew there as well. The view from the outside of the Royal Observatory where the sort of cliff fall off in a steep gradient and you get to see the other half of the park was simply breathtaking.

And then of course the Royal Observatory itself with the GMT stuffs and the .....
There was a big crowd at the 0' Meridien line with a long queue waiting for turns to take photos 'on' the line. Basically, a metal line along the meridien that runs for about 5 metres towards a sculpture. This is where you get to have your feet in the Western and Eastern hemispheres.



Then we were off to the Astronomical Exhibits. The hands-on exhibits were great and very interactive. For good reasons, photograpy is not allowed inside. We also got to see a huge refracting telescope built in the late 19th century......