Mark's Wildlife and Adventures Blog

This will include on the way back to Victoria aswell. We got to Greenwich Planetarium and found out that the shows are every hour on the hour and had 20 minutes to wait until the next show which was good. I had my photo taken outsidethis telescope thing which looked cool


The Planetarium was on top of a tall hill which is fun to climb, you get a bit tired but its worth it! From up here you can see the Millenium Dome, now called the 02 Arena but i think it was better known as the Millenium Dome.


This is a nice area of London, nice amount of greenery, sometimes you forget you are in a city! It has stunning views of Canary Wharf aswell and the London Eye can still be seen which was very cool. Here is a photo i took of the Greenwich wheel with Canary Wharf in the background. Its land name is the Isle of Dogs, iam not quite sure why its called that.


I like to pose for the camera a lot


Here is the Meridian Clock, it operates in GMT - Greenwich Mean Time, this is the place where GMT comes from which was very interesting. This clock has 24 hours on it instead of the usual clocks which have 12 which made it very interesting to look at.


The Planetarium experience was very good, we had a rather humorous Austrian person who was making jokes like * if you are afraid of the dark, hold hands wiith the person next to you!,...... If you do not know the person next to you, maybe now is the time to chat and get to know them!!!* This was very funny and i couldnt help chuckling a bit

The star projector was more advanced than the one in Chichester, our local one, because it had the ability to zoom into the stars and was more modern, the one in Chichester was older but still very good.

Afterwards, we made our way back down the hill, going down was much easier! and to the Greenwich Wheel. It was quite quiet here aswell and me and Mum got a pod to ourselves.


This wheel was faster but you get 4 rotations per go, that is you get to go round 4 times which was good. It was half the size of the London Eye but with fantastic views of the area too.


We can see the London Eye from here! It makes London look tiny but in reality, we only went a short distance from it.


When it was time to get off, we went under the Thames! You can go via this lift that takes you under a walkway and its quite fun! We did get a bit worried about the wetness in the middle with the drip, drip drip of water but it was fine and we made it,


At the other end, we got on the Docklands Light Railway to an underground station and went to St Pauls and got off and went to look at the Cathedral and i had my photo taken next to it. It looked very grand and i crossed the road very carefully to try and get most of the building into the camera frame!



After that, we went to cross the bridge that used to wobble a lot when it was first opened! No matter how i jumped to try and make it move, it didnt budge which was just as well really.


Then we went back on the underground to Victoria station and had dinner at Whetherspoons there before catching our train home. We had a really great time and it was an excellent Birthday treat for me. I took a photo of the train departure board at Victoria too.


I really enjoyed my Birthday treat and iam glad i went on the 1st as it was raining all day on the 5th which was my Birthday but i didnt mind as i had my treat earlier. Here is a photo of my Birthday Cake, it was VERY yummy!


Hope you all enjoyed that as much as i did. Its not long until my holiday now, 6 days to go!

For my Birthday treat, me and Mum went to London on the train as i wanted to go on the London Eye, i have been on it before when it first opened but didnt have a decent camera back then so it was great to go on it again. It was a lovelly sunny day and we got to London Victoria station at 10am and went on the underground to Westminster station. As it was September 1st, the main tourist traffic was gone so it was a good time to go.

After arriving at Westminster station, we got off and went to ground level and crossed Westminster Bridge and the London Eye was standing tall in the sunshine. We planned to go when the weather was decent too which was good.

Part of the London Eye, for those who might not know what it is, its like a giant Ferris Wheel although it dosent go quite as fast as one!


Me getting ready to go on, there was no queue which was great! When it first opened, we had to queue for about an hour as it was so popular.


Big Ben and the houses of Parliament, where they are thinking of new ways on how to take our cash more!


View from higher up.


The *flight* takes about 30 minutes as it gradually goes round and i took loads of photos and will show the best ones here, it was nice to see so far away in all diections, seeing major attractions such as Canary Wharf, Tate Modern, Battersea, Thames, MI5 and MI6 to the east, the Queen's Palace all from a nice skyview vantage point.

View looking towards Canary Wharf.


Nice view of Big Ben looking not so big.


Here is an example of that bus stop waiting saying, Three come at once on this Bridge below!


The Queen's residence, i couldnt see her peeking out the window though, maybe she was asleep!


London is really beautiful and its amazing from the air, the planes approaching Heathrow Airport can be seen flying close by which is cool.


It was soon time to get off again and we had our photo taken just as we were pulling in, you know like when a theme park ride reaches the top and suddenly plummets and your photo is taken> it was like that and i bought a photo and a key ring and fridge magnet of it too.

Here is a photo of the London Eye after we got off, i really enjoyed it. Now we are going to go on a boat downstream on the River Thames heading eastwards to Greenwich. This will be in part Two. Hope you enjoyed it so far!



I did do a little film but found out i only did about 10 seconds so wasnt really worth uploading but nevermind i really enjoyed my ride.