Sept 12 Greenwich, Tate Modern, and off to Abingdon

Our day started with bright sunshine.  We slept late again...jet lag had hit us harder than we realized...so we had the afternoon ahead of us.

We decided to venture out to Greenwich, the home of GMT and the Prime Meridian (the line of longitude which separates the Eastern from the Western hemispheres.  We arrived via the underground and the Light Rail system, through Canary Warf.

Greenwich is a lovely town with streets lined with old buildings.

We made our way to the Royal Observatory which is the location where scientists' work was done to determine precision in time keeping and where the international community determined the prime Meridian would be. 

The park where the observatory is located is beautiful and many people where out enjoying the sun shine.

The Observatory itself was a little underwhelming, but the Prime Meridian was special.  I can now say that, in my lifetime, I have stood on zero degrees longitude and latitude as well (the equator).

We took a Thames clipper back into London and did a very quick look-see at the Tate Modern Gallery.

Most of the works there were baffling to me, but I did see:

A Picasso

A Matisse

A Monet

A Dali

And a Degas statue.

Then it was off to Abingdon for a visit with my cousin Alan.