London holiday – a day in Greenwich
I had a most enjoyable day taking a ferry to Greenwich with an old Melbourne friend, now resident in London, and spending the day walking through the park to the Royal Observatory to learn about the mechanisation of time, the solutions to the problem of calculating longitude and the development of astronomical observation. Greenwich is a fascinating place and the hour long ferry ride from Westminster gives you a helpful London geography lesson along the way.
The view of the Royal Observatory from the bottom of Greenwich park (above) and the view of the city from the top of the hill at the observatory (below).
The planetarium (above, foreground) and part of the observatory building (below).
The view west to the Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic church from the observatory (above) and west to a modernist tower from the bottom of the park (below, I don’t know what building it is).
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