My weekend in Greenwich

 

This weekend I went to Greenwich for a walk. I haven’t been there since last year. I remembered that at beginning of this year Greenwich was given a new name on the 3rd of February this year by the Queen. it is now known as the Royal borough of Greenwich.
Greenwich is also a world of heritage site. I like going there because the location offers; a museum, green spaces, a market, the river Thames and so much more.

Located in south east of London, Greenwich has many attractions. with interesting stories from the past which I will examine in this blog.

Sir Christopher Wrens’ old Royal navy College has the painted hall has described as the most beautiful dinning hall in Europe. The hall designed by Sir Christopher Wren and Nicholas Hawksmoor was originally intended as eating space for Naval veterans who lived there at the Royal hospital for seaman. The painted hall is free of charge to get in.

Over the hill there is Greenwich Park, which also has the Royal Observatory and Greenwich Mean Time on the top, over looking across the river is Poplar in East London. You may have heard that how important the place is.

In the summer season, there will be a lot of activities for both tourist and local people are enjoy scenery of London from the top of the hill.

Every Sunday at Greenwich market, you will find a variety of internationality food. Tourist and local people come out to enjoy the fun in town.

Greenwich university is situated by the River Thames across from the Canary wharf on the north of the river.

Meridion

on the roof

The painted Hall

When I went there on Sunday, the weather wasn’t good at all. I thought we are still in winter season. It was cold and cloudy all day and still there were a lot of people in town. I went to the market bought some food and then walked along the river Thames. I stopped at the Cutty Sark which just been re-opened to the public on 26 April this year, after six years of restoration.  The ship was destroyed by fire in 2007 and the cause was unknown by the met police but some said the fire was caused by the builders or careless workers.

The Cutty Sark is open daily now.

The Cutty Sark was the world famous clipper ship of all kinds, was built in 1869 by a Scottish man and he named it after the witch in Robert Burns 1791 poem. The aim is to make the ship sail faster to the east. During that time the tea trade was very famous for the ship. The first round trip voyage began in 1870 carrying wine, spirits and beers to Shanghai and on the way back with 1450 tons of tea. The ship completed eight round tripped annually. I found quite amazed with the history of the ship, which I found on the Wikipedia on the Internet resources. The price to get in to see inside the ship will cost £ 12 per person.

This year, the Olympic and Paralympic are going to taking part in Greenwich, which mean that there will be a lot more people around and Greenwich will be very busy with all tourist plus local.

You can get to Greenwich from central London only 20 minutes by tube, train, boat and buses.

My weekend has ended after my lunch. It was time to go home after a long walked up to the hill from Greenwich town. The hill was quite high from the bottom to the top