Cholmondley_Warner

The title says it all. There is another "eye" in the grounds of the Old Naval College in Greenwich.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/e...on/7474547.stm

So another reason to visit Greenwich (other than the possibility of meeting me at work!)

Dukey

If I honestly thought we could actually meet I would make a point of it.

Cholmondley_Warner

The Greenwich Beer Festival starts in the same place on the 16th.

http://www.greenwichbeerandjazz.com/

Combine the two - it could be fun.

avalon

Dukey, just do it! CW is lots of fun to be with!

PatrickLondon

Beer.

Ferris wheel.

CW.

Nuff said.

Dukey

Be careful what you wish for!!!!

Actually, I suspect it could be quite delightful and i am absolutely certain it would foster world peace, international understanding, and so forth.

Now, if we could just get Flanner involved in this I'd even PAY for the meal!

Mathieu

Hell, get Flanner in and we'd have a right old pilgrimage of a GTG !

Where is Flanner these days BTW ?

asalamy

I was looking at the wheel on Friday as I was having a drink after work - it was doing its "practice" rounds I think.

Anyone happen to know if this is the same wheel that was in Hyde Park over New Year for the Winter Festival they had?

PalenQ

wherever flimflanner is let's hope he stays there

Anyway Greenwich is such a wondrous place to go Eye or no Eye and new Eye will just make it better - should be a great view of the Thames - Greenwich Park, the Docklands, etc.

I am always amazed when i traipse thru the War College's former buildings - now some kind of college and the museum part and the park, observatory, Cutty Sark (being rebuilt i guess after a fire) and the Thames front, the town itself - the market - Greenwich to me was a 3-star site and now even more.

I suggest hopping the Docklands Light Railway or DLR to go at least one way - this elevated automated (in theory) People Mover slices thru the amazing new Docklands/Canary Wharf extravaganza before burrowing under the Thames to Greenwich.

I suggest getting off at Mudchute or Island Gardens before the Thames tunnel and taking the old Greenwich foot tunnel under the Thames for the unique experience - 1800s Victorian tunnel and all.

PatrickLondon

But anyone following PQ's advice should be aware that there will be some disruption while they lengthen platforms for longer trains on the DLR. Until the end of August, there will be one-way working on the stretch down to Greenwich and therefore a much reduced service.

PalenQ

Good tip from Patrick about disruption and also in any case you should avoid the DLR during rush hours IME when the trains become very very SRO when the zillions of workers going to and fro Canary Wharf area pile on and off.

Hopefully longer trains will help alleviate that. And during rush hour the trains cease becoming driverless - as a driver sitting next to me in the driver's seat at the very front on the train told me when he took over the controls from the automatic system.

Cholmondley_Warner

I don't think Flanneur goes south of the river...

Come on peeps, a big wheel, a beer festival, a pub with strippers, two gay bars and the worst restaurant known to humanity. What more do you want?

Mathieu

Guffaws, CW !

Hey, I'm in.

cynthia_booker

The Greenwich wheel seems to be similar in size to the one erected in Windor last year as a temporary attraction.
That one was lovely, and had nicely heated seats in the pods.
Nicely heated seats will probably not be needed except for about half the days this one is in place.

PalenQ

Probably the same wheel - floated down the Thames - wheels are big in England now - rode one in Manchester this Feb

Cholmondley_Warner

I believe it was in Paris last year.

So come on peeps. Get down to Greenwich. Let's smoke some crack, go see some strippers and get tattoos

CW - knows the dark side of Greenwich

Cholmondley_Warner

Gah! You bunch of Wendys!

flanneruk

1. As you observe, it's sarf of the river
2. It's a bloody beer festival. I'll still be recovering from the one my local primary school puts on (that wasn't a misprint) a couple of days before. So travelling halfway round the globe to listen to CAMRA members boring for both hemispheres about OG and straight glasses...
3. Ferris wheels. Aren't they just SO 2000?
4. What HAS got into PalQ? See what happens if you go mainlining Dulux, boys and girls? You think a tin of gloss here, the odd PaintPod of matt emulsion on a Saturday night. You can handle it. But 99.9% of all sad gits started off with Brilliant White Eggshell.

Don't be taken in by that old English sheepdog (or "bleeding intellectual" as the flannerpooch astutely describes him)in the ads. Just say No! to paint.

TheFlannerpooch

And remember.

Cocker spaniels have still won more Supreme Championships at Crufts than those bloody Dulux dogs.

Charm beats intellectual snobbery every time.

PalenQ

Oh go walk the dogma