Always wanted to do this ...

[ronin6290]

Delightful! Thanks for sharing. Did you get to go aboard the Cutty Sark?

[Derek]

Grizzly ... yep ... the clocks etc are amazing.
Mal ... lol ... I got no answer or excuse to that one ... luv it
Ronin .. sadly we didnt go on the Cutty Sark

Iechyd Da
Derek

[English Bloke]

Great pictures Derek. I took mee luverly wife there about ten years ago. She loved it. She'd been a brainwashed UTC girl (Universal Time Coordinated) up to that point but she's now a committed GMT-er (Greenwich Mean Time).

[EagleJCS]

Right, Steve. I was thinking the same. GMT has nothing to do with hemisphères.

Still, the digital sign on the observatory has GMT on it ... and I was straddling the prime meridian, which is zero longitude. Right foot was in East longitude and left foot was in West longitude, so I was in both the east & west hemispheres of the Earth.

[Liam]

Enjoyed the pictures! Spiffy casual "brogues".....

Slainte...Bill

[GMan]

Glad you did that. I have always wanted to do that but yet have not, perhaps someday.

[westsussexbiker]

Used to live in London and remember when during the Millennium Year , a thin, green laser beam was shot from the Observatory following the exact line of the prime meridian...into what looked like infinity...

[cessna152towser]

Excellent pics Derek.

[Alan H]

UM, that was the longitude.

I was gonna say.........





However, one of my goals is to stand in that same spot and visit the Royal Observatory.

[sydnie7]

Been there, done that, very cool! I think that trip was pre-digital but I have stacks of prints. Might browse through to see if I can offer evidence, but OTOH that will just make me pine for another trip, which is quite out of the question now. . .