After flying in from Barcelona I decided to spend 2 full days in London to meet up with friends. Day 1 was meeting up with my old Uni friend: Andy B. We met in the morning at Paddington and after a quick brekkie at Costa we made our way via tube and DLR to Greenwich where we took a quick look around Greenwich market before heading to the Cutty Sark.
For those of you that aren't British, the Cutty Sark is the last remaining tea clipper and one of the fastest sail powered ships of her time. She is now a museum ship in dry dock in Greenwich. As well as looking around the ship itself and taking in the display of old ship figureheads we also had Afternoon Tea in the glass cafe built under the keel of the ship.
A few months ago I'd come across a video of the creepiest places in London on Youtube -and one of them was the Greenwich foot tunnel, which is the only foot tunnel under the Thames. I'd thought it would be a great place to try myself, so when we left the ship and found the entrance to the foot tunnel right in front of us we decided to walk across to the North side of the Thames.
It really is quite a creepy place. It's quite long (about .4 of a mile). It also has a shallow up/down curve to it is shallowest at the ends and deeper in the middle. This means that you can see a long way down it - but the path disappears towards the ceiling at the end of your line of sight. We were in there in the middle of the afternoon and there were plenty of people about, but I certainly wouldn't want to be in there on my own at night.
After that we took the tube over to Bond Street and walked to Manchester Gardens (just behind Selfridge's) to go around the Wallace Collection. This is another of London's free museums - and well worth a visit.
We rounded out the day with some shopping in Selfridge's and Fortnum and Mason before having an evening meal at a pub near Paddington.
It was lovely to see my old friend for the day - last time we'd seen each other in person was pre-Covid.
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