The Adventures of Kerri & Matt

This museum full of ships was more interesting than it sounds.

Ship in a giant bottle. It’s labelled a “Giant Ship in a Bottle”, but the ship is still pretty small, for a ship.

A big boat with a duck head.

Heads chopped off of various ships.

Kerri standing Greenwich on a giant map of the world in Greenwich.The giant map of the world from above.

A funky map of what drove exploration in different areas. Notice the completely empty area in the top left that we call home.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A carved elephant tusk depicting the slave trade.

Matt making the museum “Make Fast”

A 1922 Stained Glass dome from the Baltic Exchange.

The Cutty Sark, a ship used in the 1800s to trade tea and wool. You could go inside and underneath it, but we were sick of ships.

We took a brief break from London and headed out to Greenwich to check out the observatory. It sits on a hill so we had a quick rest before checking out the Prime Meridian.

Everyone has the picture of themselves standing on either side of the meridian. We took a different approach headed down into the park and lined ourselves up with the marker above. This is the furthest we’ve ever been apart, whole hemispheres in this case. (This had nothing to do with the ridiculous line and cost to see a metal bar embedded into the ground.)

The observatory was a very interesting building and we checked out the science exhibits inside.

Here’s Kerri petting the Earth’s oldest pet rock.

This was a wall of all the official measurement, both time and distances. Kerri’s foot isn’t quite kingly enough.

And what better way to top it off than street noodles. Sadly there was no more shrimp, but the food was still great.