Sam Cook

Thought it was about time I added the final exciting days. Day 4 started a bit later than i’d hoped but it was a saturday and we didn’t really have anything planned so wasn’t that big a deal. Got a bagel from the station (oh how i miss so much tasty food on my door step) and headed off to get on Thames “cruise”. 

Decided to stay on the boat all the way to Greenwich to see as much as was available from the Thames in one go and then went for a mooch to see what the town of time had to offer. 

First was a big market with all sorts of food available. It was a tough choice picking lunch but the winner was a giant roast beef and cheddar sandwich. Partly because it was the first thing I saw, partly because seeing a huge melted lump of cheddar was just amazing as they rotated its holder and dripped it onto the sandwich :D Missus opted for a goat stew, she’s weird and likes to eat goat.

After finding a tree to sit under in Greenwich park to eat our lunch we trekked up the steep steep hill to see what all the time lark was about. They have a red ball on a stick that sits on top of the building, 5 minutes before each hour the ball rises and then on the hour the ball drops. I have no idea why they decided this is what should happen but who doesn’t love a big red ball.

Being the former ruler of the world they also decided the line where east meets west. People we queueing up to have their picture taken infront of a weird shape of metal (i did take a picture of it, just not with us in it) which was odd.

When we were heading back down the hill there was someone singing (and amped) at Queen’s House, seemingly named as a former royal residence. Turned out there was a wedding happening and some nice loud woman was on one side of the wall shouting it was someone she knows from Hong Kong’s wedding and shes amazed that she hangs around with such fancy people as she’s usually on the other side looking in.

What struck me as odd, about the wedding itself, is that Queens House is a public building and anyone can walk through the gates and mill about, as many people were. So why anyone would want to have a wedding there, and i imagine pay a substantial amount to do so, baffles me. Also possibly highlights the intelligence of the woman, who on numerous occasions has been free to walk through to the other side if she so wished (or realised).

Walking around a bit more of Greenwich we discovered a shop i think called Shake It which offered 101 flavours of milkshake. These were basically every chocolate bar, biscuit or fruit that existed and were made by blending said “flavour” with some ice cream. The end result is made of win. I had a Bourbon Biscuit flavour, which much like the Biscuits was amazingly delicious and Girl Sam had a Lion Bar shake.

Went back to the boat and headed to tower pier which i imagine is named for being by the Tower of London.  There was little else there and that seemed needlessly expensive so we went to wetherspoons for cheap beer and free wifi :) which helped me upload some more snaps before annoyingly hitting the free Flickr limit (since removed as i paid for it, so i’ll have to start taking photos i guess, yay an almost excuse to buy an SLR). 

In spoons a random old man came up to me and asked if id take a picture of him and his friends. He handed me his camera and then did nothing,for quite some time. I asked him if he wanted to be in the picture at which point he realised he should probably go and sit with his friends. I took the picture, he was far too happy, offered to by me a drink. That was nice, opted to be charitable though, what with it not being even remotely worth a drink. 

Don’t think anything else happened that day, at all. Headed back to the hotel and did a big read of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. 

Toodles.