Thames River Cruise

Today is Day 1 using my 6 day London Pass. The weather for the rest of the week is supposed to be not great, so even though it was forecast to be a bit windy today, I decided to do the Thames River Cruise.

Got to Westminster Pier about 10, there was a massive group of people in wheelchairs near the ticket office. They actually weren't in line, I'm guessing they had one able person standing in line for them. They didn't speak English and so someone finally managed to tell me they weren't in line when I asked (they did the asking each other thing). Obviously they needed a lot of space cos they were all in wheelchairs, and there's not a lot of space around the ticket booth, so I think they confused a lot of people into thinking that they were in the line for tickets.

Then while waiting for the boat, chatted to the dad of a German family on holidays. I'd found a brochure about this cruise in Aunty Kok Lee's house and was reading it, and he was so surprised he exclaimed "Die Frau hat einen Plan!", so I asked him if he wanted to read it and conversation started from there. He was clearly confused by an Asian girl from Australia who could speak German, who was in London.

I'm currently only halfway through the cruise. It started at Westminster and I'm now at Greenwich. The boat has stopped for a bit. It's a round trip so the sights on the way back will be the same.

So, sights from the river: Westminster Abbey, Big Ben, London Eye, Cleopatra's needle, Tate Modern, HMS Belfast, London Bridge, Tower of London, Tower Bridge, Shakespeare's Globe... Uhhh just go look them all up on google maps. It was good to get a broad view of all these places that I will be visiting soon (I'll be going to see most of them)

Was on the upper deck until just then when there were only apartments and stuff to see, and it was getting really windy. The bottom deck has windows anyway, so I can still see out.

The captain was doing some commentary, just pointing put sights and telling stories. He's pretty funny in a sarcastic but not nasty way. Has definitely made the trip more enjoyable so far


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