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Tuesday 9th Apr 2013 09:20:01
London, day 3
    
So this is day 3 of our little trip to London. We've all slept in the same hotel room and it's all gone largely okay. We were kind of worried that the children would play up a little, what with the excitement of being in London, sleeping in a hotel room and all that. But, no, they've been good. Although today there were moments when I started thinking, "Has he had enough sleep? Are we seeing a little breakdown here?" but who can say? We got the tube to Embankment and, from there, got the clipper to Greenwich. The pictures above are from said boat journey.
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So this is what I'm talking about. Here we are wandering around the Cutty Sark, which was fantastic. Something like the last remaining original 19th century tea clipper in the world, or something similar, and the whole thing was really well done. Loads to see and explore, stuff for the children to do . . . blah, blah, blah. It was all good. But then on the top deck, R****** had a little . . . erm . . . moment. M**** wanted their picture taken next to the sign 'Cutty Sark', but R****** objected. I can't remember what the issue was; perhaps R****** wanted to stand where A****** was or wanted to stand in such a place as to obscure the words 'Cutty Sark', which would kind of defeat the purpose of the photograph, but try explaining that to a 4-year old. In the end, with R****** in the correct place, I took pictures of him having a melt-down purely for the record. "Look, R******, this is you having one of your 'moments' on the top deck of the Cutty Sark. Do you remember? Can you remember what you were crying about? No. We're not sure either."
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. . . but anyway, R******'s little moment passed and he picked up again. From the top deck, we got all the way down below the ship itself, where you could see the copper (copper? brass? some other alloy?) lined hull. There was the requisite stop at the gift shop for badges. Anyone familiar with A****** and R******'s ruck-sacks will know we like to collect badges of all the places they've been. So yeah . . . and then lunch at Nando's, which was a bit of a gamble, but the boys loved their chicken burger things. The keen-eyed amongst you may be thinking, "That picture of the ship's rigging looks very familiar," which is because it is familiar - see here - from a day out in Dundee, the day before my 30th birthday.
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Then, after the Cutty Sark, we headed up to the observatory itself (we're at Greenwich, remember?) to do all the prime meridian stuff.
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