On Saturday I went to a birthday celebration of a friend. For now, pictures are available here.

The celebration started at Bar du Musee in Greenwich, then moved on to the National maritime museum. Everything boaty. interestingly, not a great deal of submarines, but I suppose as they're mostly military.. though they did have a full sized version of the shark shaped submarine mentioned in Episode 12 of The Adventures of Tin Tin.

Then I moved on (at the suggestion of a man doing an interesting talk on solo sailing explorers, mainly Robin Scott Johnson) (who I can't find a link about at the moment - I did stuble over a nudist explorer list, though nudism is not one of my preferred passtimes). Anyway, he suggested looking at the Painted Hall in the Old Royal Naval College. The two pictures I took don't really do it justice.




It's a large picture.
Then we moved on to the Trafalgar Tavern for some much needed refreshment. then to Noodle Time (also in Greenwich) for food - plentiful and cheap, though their serving method is a little confusing, as well as it's naturally noisy in there so the quietly spoken female waitress was difficult to understand,