Today brought Tristan, Allie and I to Greenwich: A particularly green patch of England with a large park and a great observatory... Oh, and the Prime Meridian. Apparently it's one of Allie's dreams to stand at exactly 0 degrees latitude, so the three of us journeyed out together to help her fulfill that dream.
Greenwich itself was beautiful. Even on a cloudy day it was nice just to walk the paths among the trees and open grass, watching people on their Friday outings, taking in the scenery and the residential feel of this peaceful port in the southwest sector of London. Walking up the hill to the observatory (which is a fair rival to the hills of Ithaca, New York) you could turn around and get a magnificent view of London from the southwest angle. Plus it was home of the Prime Meridian, which we eventually did get to walk along and straddle. Now I can someday tell my grandchildren that at one point in my life I was in both the eastern and western hemispheres at exactly the same time.
JD
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