Back to town . . .

 . . . and another wonderful day, dry and warm! Hampton to Waterloo again, Jubilee line again, then off at Greenwich North, again.

This time I was planning to go south to see the old tea clipper, Cutty Sark, so asked a man with a high-viz jacket walking across the station concourse and he told me to catch a bus from Stance C, 129 or 188. I waited for a while and took the latter, but before reaching the Cutty Sark I decided to get off to walk past the National  Maritime  Museum. Having got off, the bus pulled away, then stopped again. The door opened, again, and the driver opened his driving door and called out to me. 'I'm the guy you spoke to at the station', he said, 'I thought you wanted the Cutty Sark!' I explained, and he told me how to find her. This made my day, how he bothered to stop the bus to check I was going where I wanted to go! I won't allow anyone to say that Londoners are unfriendly!

I had a good explore round that amazing old ship, my Blip today, then took a Thames tour upriver to Tower Bridge - on a good old-fashioned boat, the Hollywood. It was good to pass my favourite riverside pubs, the Grapes, the Prospect of Whitby and the Captain Kidd, then approach Tower Bridge - today's extra - to drop me off at Butler's Wharf. After lunch at the 'Five Guys' I walked along the South Bank and only then it occurred to me that I could retrace my steps of 7 years ago to try to identify a building in Union Street that I'd failed to do in other ways. After enquiring at a pub, a fire station and the Head Office of Transport for London I gave up and took the Jubilee train from Southwark back to Waterloo and thence to Hampton. Another wonderfully crowded day and a sore hip to prove it!

Quote of the Day: 'Quote of the Day: 'How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.' - Morgan Freeman.