London Tower Mean Time - April 4th

We headed up early to London again. We have been walking to the train station which has been nice. It is just over a mile and a half to the station from RA's place. We have the trains down at this point. It can be crowded at times, but it is not really that different from Japan, just not as many trains. This trip there has not been a late train as of yet.

When we arrived at London Waterloo we switched to the Northern Line to switch at Embankment. From there we got on the District Line and went out to Tower Hill. The last trip I didn't have a lot of time to look around the Tower of London. So we went through it again. Followed around the one Beefeater that had done the Ceremony of the Keys on my last trip. He was very funny once more. We saw the Crown Jewels, a lot of resources went into making those. We then stopped at Starbucks is as often happens. Then we took the DLR out to the Cutty Sark.

The Cutty Sark is a famous ship that was on display in Greenwich, but had been set alight to. On the last trip they were almost finished with the renovation. Then someone burnt it down to the keel. They are almost finished with the reconstruction now. After walking around the construction site we walked up to the Old Royal Navy College. Very impressive. We went into the area where Lord Nelson laid in state after dying in the Battle of Trafalgar. The painting in that room, aptly named "The Painted Room" was very impressive. From there we walked through the Maritime Museum, interesting pieces of history, they had a Royal Barge. Looks something like you might see in ancient Egypt. We then walked up to the Royal Observatory where Greenwich Meantime is kept. Nice view from the top of the hill down towards the college and the river.

By this time we were hungry so we went and found a Mexican restaurant. The food was not spectacular, but it was a fair representative of what that type of food should taste like. We then headed back to RA's place to get ready for the trip up to Scotland.