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We are a retired American couple living in France, enjoying the good life with our cats. Our house is in a small hamlet among the Ste. Foy vines. We also have a sailboat that the male half of the spousal unit sailed across the Atlantic in the summer of 08. When the weather warms we will start to visit the sailing ports of Europe. Our stories chronicle our life in France: the good life, the hard life, and the sailing life.

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Longitude at the Greenwich Meridian


On a 5 day trip to London, we spent a sunny day in Greenwich. We took a boat down the Thames along with hundreds of workers as the tube was not working that day. Greenwich was beautiful. The mariner sought to verify longitude zero with his handheld GPS.

In London we met friends, ate good food especially the scones, went to the Sir John Soane Museum, visited several markets, visited book shops, and bought wonderful hand made cheeses: Stilton, Cheedar and Cheshire cheese to bring back to France.
We had a great short trip. London would be another great city to rent an apartment for a few weeks next winter.

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