A festival of tall ships…

By: Noah D.

While we’re still not fully moved on board (for paperwork reasons) we are taking every opportunity to be around boats. In London – especially in the late summer – this is not hard.

Even more so, the Totally Thames festival is going on. And, to kick it off, they’ve got the Royal Greenwich Tall Ships Festival in the east.

Basically, its a couple dozen huge sailboats that raft up, sail around, and hang out all weekend. Yeah, its a bit nerdy. I make no apologies.

But, at the end of the walk, we found grass that Lynn is sure was imported from The Shire. Or possibly it fell down from heaven. Or maybe it is because we have been living in London too long and good grass is hard to come by.

Anyway, not to get sidetracked by awesome grass, but we weren’t the only ones…

We spent the rest of the evening at The Yacht pub down at Maritime Greenwich. If you’re in the area and just want to sit and watch the river (or tall ships) go by, I fully recommend it.

What day by the Thames would be complete without a walk on the “beach”?

The old Naval college is cool, right? Since it survived the alien invasion, thanks to Thor…

Now, I am a little disappointed to miss the Southampton boat show this year. I’ve got some family stuff to attend to in the USA. It starts next weekend and runs almost exactly the duration of my time away. But there’s always next year. Maybe we’ll just sail on down… 🙂