Saturday

After an early start the coach got to London about ten minutes late. However my friend was still waiting for her car so I made my own way to Greenwich. It was lovely to see her again, and the old town, but the place has so many mixed memories for me. We did the usual walk and had a spot of lunch by the river. They've started restoring the Painted Hall, and the colours are spectacular. We couldn't go in the Queen's House as it is currently closed for a makeover. I hope they will decorate it as it would have been decorated when it was lived in in the Seventeenth Century. The bus journey home was tedious with one traffic jam after another. There was a bad crash on the motorway involving a number of cars and a white van, which was lying on its side. I got home about half an hour late.