Greenwich

Getting There

Sitting at the front of a Docklands Light Railway (DLR) train can be disconcerting, as you watch the controls in the fully automated driver's cab move about, as if a ghost were at the helm. It remains a zippy way to get to Cutty Sark station, from Canary Wharf and Bank Tube stations in The City. Or take the DLR to Island Gardens and walk the old Victorian Foot Tunnel under the river. The best way to arrive, however—time and weather permitting—is like a sea admiral of old: by water (though this way takes an hour from central London.