Some Favorite Pictures From This Evening's Thames River Cruise

It was fun, informative and interesting!

London was one of the busiest ports in the world until the 1960s, when containers were introduced. The Thames wasn’t suited for that business and its big container ships, so the piers and warehouses quickly fell into disuse. Now they are long gone.

This is a Gordon Ramsay restaurant.

The difference between low and high tide is 20 to 30 feet, even this far up the Thames estuary. It’s apparent in some of the pictures that it was low tide during our river cruise. The Thames is 220 miles long. The Viking Sky came 40 miles up the estuary to Greenwich.

After passing the Houses of Parliament, our boat made a U-turn, and we headed downstream. By the time we got back to the Viking Sky, it was well past sunset.

That’s it. It’s amazing to think that at this time tomorrow, our United 787 will be beginning its descent into Denver International Airport. Yet I’m about to settle in for a full night’s sleep! While that suggests that it’s a small world now, our 122-day cruise tells me it’s actually a very big world. I’ll have some reflections on it in the coming days and weeks which I will post here.

Bye for now.