Away To Sea

Onward, to the National Maritime Museum! 

 You're right, that's not the National Maritme Museum, that's Borough Market.

I didn't notice at the time but look at this fantastic woman in the green check coat with the huge safety pin and grey hair and top knot and glasses!

I stopped for lunch, and cake, and more tourist gawping. It's fantastic, I would love to have a market like this in Liverpool, although I'd be very fat, and very poor.

Anyway, to Greenwich!

 Although I hadn't even been in London for 24 hours yet it was such a change to be that little bit further out, it felt so much calmer and more spacious.

 Those are streets that were made to be marched along.

I may not have mentioned it on the blog, though those of you who follow me on Facebook or Twitter will know that just before Christmas I started selling my knot jewellery at the gift shop in the NMM. I sell my work in here;

So what else is inside?

 A selection of rather impressive figureheads.

 A bit of a boat.

Some dashing chaps in very smart outfits.

Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith. Good name for a cat.

Captain Sir William Peel. Swoon.

 "At the seige of Sebastapol he picked up a live mortar shell and threw it over a parapet just as it exploded."

 What a guy.

 There's also some really incredible stained glass.

Salvaged from the Baltic Exchange war memorial.

And in the gift shop;

Very nautical, no?