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Come and meet the tour guide at 10.30am at the
Blackheath Gate of Greenwich Park: the annual starting
point for the London Marathon. This is where the
biggest temporary police station ever seen in the UK has
been built and tented stabling is ready for competitors
in the Olympic equestrian events. There are clean toilets
at the park gate before a ten minute flat walk along a
beautiful avenue of trees takes us to the attractive park
café to buy morning refreshments. Alongside Wren’s
Old Royal Observatory we enjoy a view that, by the
time you come, will be world famous. Four billion
people will have seen the iconic views of London
filmed from where you will stand this morning looking
out over Greenwich and the River Thames to the
Olympic Stadium, The O
2
& the cable car, The Shard,
the City with the dome of St. Paul’s and into the West
End. We walk down past the site of the Olympic show
jumping course for a tour of the beautiful Queen’s
House and a peek inside the National Maritime Museum
to see some of the beautiful barges that took part in the
Diamond Jubilee River Pageant. There’s a café in the
museum for lunch or picnic in the grounds.
After lunch we walk over to the River Thames to visit
the Cutty Sark, the clipper rebuilt after a disastrous fire
and reopened in April 2012 by HM Queen Elizabeth
following a £50 million restoration. There are lifts to
take you between decks to see where first the tea from
China and later the wool from Australia was stored and
you can also go underneath the ship to fully appreciate
the magnificent shape of the world’s last clipper.
We return to the coach (not too far away) to drive out to
the Greenwich Peninsula for the final treat of a very
enjoyable day out - a flight on the new Emirate Air Line
Thames Cable Car from The O
2
to the Royal Docks and
back again without getting off. It’s 20 minutes of gentle
gliding in glass gondolas that seat up to 10 people.
You will look down over the new walkway across the
top of The O
2
and the Thames Barrier and out across the
capital with far reaching views to the Docklands, City
and West End.
If you have any members who don’t want to join you on
the cable car they can enjoy a stroll along the river to
see the colony of cormorants, take a look inside The O
2
or wait for you at the cafe where you can all buy
refreshments before heading home at 4.45pm.
Adults & Seniors: £23.50
Without the Thames Cable Car: £16.00
If you want to bring the cost of the day down you could
see the Cutty Sark from the outside but replace the ship
visit with a tour of the Painted Hall and Chapel of
Wren’s Old Royal Hospital for Seamen.
Adults & Seniors: £18.00
Without the Thames Cable Car: £10.50
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Cable Car
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Thames Cable Car