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redbird

The article about that "super sewer" talks about how few Londoners ever get close to the River Thames, and remi9nded me that I made a point of doing so, when my mother and I were visiting Greenwich. The tide was low enough that we went down a flight of stairs to a mud flat. We saw a grey heron down there, which I added to my (somewhat lackadaisical) birding life list.

Not a usual tourist stop, I know; we also went to the old Greenwich observatory, and I watched the ball drop announcing noon.

From:

andrewducker

I'm totally in favour of unusual tourist stops.

I've also been to Greenwich, arriving by boat. It was fun, although we were meeting a friend for lunch and didn't go to the tourist/naval college bits.

From:

redbird

I think we arrived by boat, did some of the tourist stops, and then walked under the river and took the DLR and then the Tube home to my mother's flat in Finchley. I don't think she'd been to Greenwich before that (having moved to London several years earlier), but was mostly happy to go with visiting family and friends to whatever we wanted to see, because we could talk happily on a boat to Greenwich as well as in her flat.