April 14 2007 Summer has crept in and it was a holiday idea - A day out thought in our minds when we all decided to go to Greenwich on a bright sunny day, 14th April 2007. We had a bit of a chit chat with Suhasini and Harsha a week before and could freeze on the idea of going to Greenwich. This time we thought will do something different. As in, do the typical picnic. All our faces lit up with the thought of packing our lunch and carrying stuffs from home and do the picnic in the Greenwich park. Immediately, the topic of discussion turned to the menu for lunch. We wnated it to be handy and thought will do Puliogre, sweet (sakkar pongal) and curd rice. Wow! we were all happy and thought this would be the best idea. Now, little did we know that the ideas would change as Abhi the great thought it might be a mess carrying things and "picnicING". Pheeew! change in plan. Do the brunch and leave to Greenwich.
We took the tube to CANARY WHARF and then boarded the Docklands Light Railway and reached Greenwich at around 2 pm. We headed towards the Cutty Sark (A clipper ship in a dry dock by the river). Greenwich is located in Central London - Zone 2, on the South bank of the River Thames. It is best known for its Maritime History and the location of Greenwich Mean Time. It boasts of the National Meritime Museum and the Royal Observatory where the Prime Meridian (0 Degrees Longitude) passes through the building. We headed towards the National Meritime Museum first. A very well maintained museums comprising of nearly 2.48 million items for display. Each thing in the museum amused us and the amount of information is displayed is mindblowing. The exit of the museum took us to the Greenwich Park.
This is a massive park I ve ever come across in my life. We were busy taking pictures and I must say was a delight to see people happy and chilling out under the hot sun. The Greenwich Park leads to the Royal Observatory. The Royal Observatory, home of Greenwich Mean Time and the Prime Meridian line, is one of the most important historic scientific sites in the world. It was founded by Charles II in 1675 and is, by international decree, the official starting point for each new day, year and millennium (at the stroke of midnight GMT as measured from the Prime Meridian). Charles II appointed John Flamsteed as his first Astronomer Royal in March 1675. The Observatory was built to improve navigation at sea and 'find the so-much desired longitude of places' - one's exact position east and west - while at sea and out of sight of land, by astronomical means. This was inseparable from the accurate measurement of time, for which the Observatory became generally famous in the 19th century. This is the only place where you can stand with one foot in the East and one in the West astride the Greenwich Meridian and set your watch by the red 'Time Ball' that drops each day at 1300hrs precisely and has done so for 170 years.
It was a mind blowing experience in here and it was great to see Arathi's face all lit and happy. Next was the ice creme time. Suhasini told us that we get very good Ice cremes in a particular shop near the observatory. We were too thrilled to have the ice creme. We stood in the queue and each of us ordered the ice creme we liked. I somehow had this intuition that my ice creme would be dropped or would get wasted (chitra!! beware of ur intuitions) Well, yes R3 wanted to taste the ice creme flavour I had and pheeew! the whole thingy fell off the cone! Man!! there was a scream a silence and the OOOOOOOOOOOOO s! R3 was sooooo hurt and Abhi was furious. Not becoz it was my ice creme that was dropped, not even coz R3 dropped but it was for poor ice creme that nobody could eat!!!! We walked back the distance in the park and also managed to take some pics of this nutorious squirrel eating nuts! It was close to 6 by the time we reached the tube station and tool the DLR to come to Canary Wharf. Suhasini and Harsha headed towards Heathrow and we went to Kingsbury to have the famous Gujju Chat and fast food, our fav ROSE. This is it and we had a great time.
We took the tube to CANARY WHARF and then boarded the Docklands Light Railway and reached Greenwich at around 2 pm. We headed towards the Cutty Sark (A clipper ship in a dry dock by the river). Greenwich is located in Central London - Zone 2, on the South bank of the River Thames. It is best known for its Maritime History and the location of Greenwich Mean Time. It boasts of the National Meritime Museum and the Royal Observatory where the Prime Meridian (0 Degrees Longitude) passes through the building. We headed towards the National Meritime Museum first. A very well maintained museums comprising of nearly 2.48 million items for display. Each thing in the museum amused us and the amount of information is displayed is mindblowing. The exit of the museum took us to the Greenwich Park.
This is a massive park I ve ever come across in my life. We were busy taking pictures and I must say was a delight to see people happy and chilling out under the hot sun. The Greenwich Park leads to the Royal Observatory. The Royal Observatory, home of Greenwich Mean Time and the Prime Meridian line, is one of the most important historic scientific sites in the world. It was founded by Charles II in 1675 and is, by international decree, the official starting point for each new day, year and millennium (at the stroke of midnight GMT as measured from the Prime Meridian). Charles II appointed John Flamsteed as his first Astronomer Royal in March 1675. The Observatory was built to improve navigation at sea and 'find the so-much desired longitude of places' - one's exact position east and west - while at sea and out of sight of land, by astronomical means. This was inseparable from the accurate measurement of time, for which the Observatory became generally famous in the 19th century. This is the only place where you can stand with one foot in the East and one in the West astride the Greenwich Meridian and set your watch by the red 'Time Ball' that drops each day at 1300hrs precisely and has done so for 170 years.
It was a mind blowing experience in here and it was great to see Arathi's face all lit and happy. Next was the ice creme time. Suhasini told us that we get very good Ice cremes in a particular shop near the observatory. We were too thrilled to have the ice creme. We stood in the queue and each of us ordered the ice creme we liked. I somehow had this intuition that my ice creme would be dropped or would get wasted (chitra!! beware of ur intuitions) Well, yes R3 wanted to taste the ice creme flavour I had and pheeew! the whole thingy fell off the cone! Man!! there was a scream a silence and the OOOOOOOOOOOOO s! R3 was sooooo hurt and Abhi was furious. Not becoz it was my ice creme that was dropped, not even coz R3 dropped but it was for poor ice creme that nobody could eat!!!! We walked back the distance in the park and also managed to take some pics of this nutorious squirrel eating nuts! It was close to 6 by the time we reached the tube station and tool the DLR to come to Canary Wharf. Suhasini and Harsha headed towards Heathrow and we went to Kingsbury to have the famous Gujju Chat and fast food, our fav ROSE. This is it and we had a great time.
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Oh my.. ur blog brought me back so many memories of London! The tube - the DLR - CANARY WHARF!!! Greenwich and best of all the ICE CREAM!!!!! I know how much you miss home so it might seem strange as to what I'm going to say - I sometimes miss London a lot... So as long as you're there have fun and see a lot of places for me too!!!!
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