Cutty Sark is a clipper ship built in the twentieth century. Clippers were some of the fastest ships on earth!
Greenwich is located in what was once the rough-and-tumble docks and shipyards of industrial London in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It is still to this day the home of the world's leading shipbuilding industries.
The old dockyards today, from the Royal Observatory.
The Prime Meridian runs through Greenwich, because this was the center of exploration and shipping since the 1400s. Ships would set their clocks to Greenwich Mean Time, and then be able to calculate their longitude on their journey based on GMT and their position under the sun at noon.
Me, in both hemispheres at once!
The Time and Society exhibit was very interesting! Insaw how people through history have used time along with the importance of time and efficiency. One exhibit was called "Interval Time," and discussed how different groups of people sometimes measure time differently than hours, minutes, and seconds. Inthought it was very cool that they included musicians in this grouping and displayed a metronome, showing that sometimes musicians need to divide a minute into more (or less) intervals than 60, depending on the tempo and feel of their piece! Nifty.
I climbed up into the dome of the observatory and viewed this giant: the Great Equatorial Telescope.
After we had finished at Greenwich, we shopped around the Greenwich Market a little before i returned to my hotel to eat lunch and take what was quite possibly the longest nap in my recent life. I rolled out of bed just in time for dinner with the director of our Honors Program, Phame! He came all the way to London to check up on us and buy us dinner. It was great talking with him about our wonderful experiences from traveling abroad. After dinner, I relaxed until bedtime in preparation for my long free day tomorrow! I have big plans, including the Tower of London, British Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, and hopefully a quick stop at Abbey Road and the house where they filmed the Parent Trap!!! Then, after dinner, I have excellent seats to go see The Lion King musical!!
