Happy Anniversary

Bill writes: Yesterday was our 21st anniversary. Because the weather had obliged us by turning from 55 degrees, rainy, and gray Wednesday to 75 cloudless degrees on Thursday, we took the boat down the Thames to Greenwich. The London Eye looked like the flywheel of the London Aquarium.



While Tower Bridge was, in the words of our boat captain, "The most wonderful bridge in the world." A Londoner's natural bias, but true nevertheless.



Soon enough, we pulled up to the dock at Greenwich.



We had a nice walk around the town, including a bookshop equivalent to the "Pound Anything" stores--any new book was two pounds. So I got a science book and an nice hardback biography of Inigo Jones. Afterwards, we went up through Greenwich park to the Royal Observatory, where Aline did the requisite straddle across the international dateline.







Then, it was off to dinner at a nice restaurant followed by "Longitude," a play adaptation of the book by Dava Sobel.