We had a mean time....

...in Greenwich! Yes, I went there. You know you love a good pun! 

Yesterday Katie and I took a mini-expedition to Greenwich, which despite feeling like a quaint and distant village is in fact part of London. We went out on the very nice Docklands Light Railway, getting off at the Island Gardens stop just across the Thames from Greenwich. Here are the Royal Naval College buildings as seen from there:

Then, we took a really cool foot-tunnel under the river. It felt like the X-Files:

We emerged on the other side at the newly-refurbished Cutty Sark!:

The view from right there (as you can see it was a lovely day):

Then we went and poked around a bit at the Royal Naval College. I'm just going to paste from Wikipedia here, it's late over here and I can't think of a witty or amusing version! 

"The Old Royal Naval College is Sir Christopher Wren's domed masterpiece at the centre of the heritage site. The site is administered by the Greenwich Foundation and several of the buildings are let to the University of Greenwich and one, the King Charles block, to Trinity College of Music. Within the complex is the former college dining room, the Painted Hall, this was painted by James Thornhill, and the Chapel of St Peter and St Paul, with an interior designed by James 'Athenian' Stuart. The Naval College had a training reactor, the JASON reactor, within the King William building that was operational between 1962 and 1996. The reactor was decommissioned and removed in 1999."

Here are some photos, including the Painted Hall set up for a fancy schmancy wedding complete with candelabra and the like!

I am retiring for the evening, more to come tomorrow including my standing simultaneously in two hemispheres and a hipster party that reminded me of dearest Brooklyn.  A thousand times good night!