Greenwich

Today’s trip was to Greenwich, home of the Prime Meridian and the reference point for the world’s time zones.

Here’s the obligatory photo at the meridian:  Anna, Alex and Renee are citizens of the world but apparently David is just a western hemisphere kind of guy.

Anyone notice that this is the first photo of David in England without a sweatshirt?

We learned lots of fascinating info about clocks and the role of accurate timekeeping in the development of the British Empire:  turns out that you can navigate north/south by watching the sun and moon, but they don’t help you know where you are in east/west direction unless you know what time it is.  The  16th century equivalent of our X-Prize was a prize for developing the first super-accurate clock for ships.

Here are Anna and Alex at a very famous sundial.    Sundials of course are worthless in England in the summer.

For all of Anna’s friends, here she is in front of a Pie store.   (For the rest of you, that’s an inside joke… just let it slide).

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