Ben and Lisa in London: Day Four in Greenwich

We planned to go to Greenwich today with the London Walks tour. I had also planned to meet my pen-pal Doris from Germany in Greenwich. We arrived at the start of the tour early, so Ben and I decided to walk across the Tower Bridge:

Not only was the bridge interesting, but there were lots of good views of notable sites as well:

Sadly, it was incredibly windy up on the bridge, so my "bad hair day" got considerably worse before we even made it to the tour.

We met up with the tour and boarded the boat to Greenwich. We were able to get a seat by the window, so we had good views as a member of the boat's crew informed us of the sites that we were passing along the river. I was happy that it was very clear and easy to hear the commentary.

Soon after we got to Greenwich, it was time to meet my pen-pal Doris from Germany. She was visiting London for a few days with her friend Gabi. They come to London every few years to shop and go to musicals. Sounds like a good idea to me! We had lunch in a pub and posed for photos (note the aforementioned bad hair situation).

Ben ordered some weird kind of chicken (it involved bones) and I finally got to try roast beef and Yorkshire pudding. I was a bit worried that the roast beef might be somewhat red, but it was fully cooked.

It was very good! Next, we walked to the top of the hill to visit the Royal Observatory and to be able to stand on the Prime Meridian, with one foot in the Western Hemisphere and one foot in the Eastern Hemisphere. Unfortunately, the entire population of both hemispheres was there also trying to get photos made, so we had to just take a photo at the end of the line.

We were able to take some photos of the beautiful panoramic views from the top of the hill over the city of London below us.

After walking down the hill, we made our way to the Greenwich Foot Tunnel in order to walk under the river. There are identical domed buildings on each side of the river connecting the two tunnels:

It only takes about 10 minutes to walk from one end to the other. Unfortunately, the elevators were not working, so there were a lot of steps to climb at the end to get back up to street level.