London/Paris trip 31Dec - Greenwich, New Years Eve

Noreen woke up early (still hadn't sorted the jet lag out, Noreen starting to get sick, etc) and that woke me up. Noreen managed to fall back asleep, but I didn't. Early in the morning, I went down to the front desk to get coffee and paid the £4 to get the TV turned on, which was a good decision since it had BBC, ITV, TV5Monde and France24. We headed out after breakfast for Greenwich and did the Cutty Sark which was cool. Then up to the Maritime museum to see the Longitude exhibit. This made the trip, too! They did a damn good job of explaining longitude, how hard it is to calculate correctly and so on. They had Harrison's H1 through H4 clocks and it was cool to see them. They had more clocks and coverage of Cook's expeditions and a mention of Bligh. The gift shop had some cool stuff and it took tons of willpower not to buy a £125 pocket watch that was inspired by H4. I was well and thoroughly tired by this point so we skipped the Observatory, had lunch and went back to the hotel. After napping and generally doing nothing , we went out around 9:30 for dinner. The pub across the street had quit serving food and nearly all of the restaurants and shops had closed. So we got some beers and bubbly wine at a convenience store and a pizza and came back to the hotel. We could see the fireworks at the Eye and a couple of other shows along the Thames and the pub across the street shot some off, too.