Blog ≫ 2014 ≫ London midweek weekender part three
We made it as far as Greenwich...
Had a bit of a walk around at Greenwich while thinking about where we might go for dinner. You're now confronted with a complex of chain restaurants as you get off the boat, there's a Byron, Nando's, Frankie and Bennies and all sorts of familiar retail park names right there. We walked past the Cutty Sark (no time to get our money's worth out of it) and went in the Greenwich Visitor Centre1 instead part of ORNC (Old Royal Naval College). This is an excellent tourist attraction, free to get in (though lots of heavy hints you should donate to keep it going) lots of things for the kids to try, building things, trying on costumes, including recreation armour. Lots of info about the history of Greenwich and then lots of pointers of what to do next too. This was so good and so handy for where we were that we revisited later too. Number one son and number two son liked the building, I liked the armour, and number two son especially liked the lift. Clare liked thing one not fussing for a short while.
We found our hotel, the Greenwich Novotel next and checked in. Nice place, super handy for the train station. We had a family room, first time we'd done this, so all four of us sleeping in the same room. We've only recently tried the two boys in the same room as each other, having been scared for so long that they'd keep each other up. It worked out well though, I think this frees us up for normal / cheaper holidays in future. We had a walk around Greenwich, the boys really loved the park in the park:
We went to Pizza Express for dinner, it was great, actually amazing. There is a new pizza on the menu that I could not have designed better myself, arrabiata base, mushrooms, spinach, NO CHEESE, amazing.
We put the boys to bed, then Clare sat in the bathroom while they fell asleep and I went out to the pub, The Lost Hour. I had a pint and read my book then went back and sat with Clare. This scheme worked really well, good plan the wife!
- Removed old ornc.org/visit/attractions/discover-greenwich-visitor-centre link here.