![]() It’s all polished planks and coils of rope. The top deck is easily the most interesting. The middle deck seems rather sparse and empty to me – they should have put some more cargo boxes in there. They’ve also got a selection of original artefacts on show including a lifebelt, barometer and a bell, but not a lot else. The next deck includes a few interactive table tops and push-button models for the kids (not very exciting) and some scale models of the ship. They’ve got a little sit down cinema that projects a very basic documentary onto the back of some old tea chests to tell you what it did and where it went. They’ve tried stacking up a few sacks and bags and crates of cargo to give you a taste of the cramped conditions, but most of the holds are empty today, decorated with flashing TV screens showing scenes of the sloshing sea. Part of me would have quite liked being a sailor but then I have a stroll around the Cutty Sark and learn that life onboard wasn’t much fun. Why bother blindfolding them to make them walk on a bendy bit of wood? Why not just shoot them? Throw them over the side and let the sharks eat them. I wonder if they still have the plank onboard this boat? Are you even allowed to make criminals walk the plank these days? Probably not, but I never understood the point of it anyway. It’s a very unfair fight because the only weapons the three teachers possess are raised voices and pointed fingers, whilst the fifty kids are armed with malfunctioning ears and deadly mocking laughter. They’re trying to marshal their adolescent army into a tidy line but not having much luck. The only other place that you can view a boat from such a unique angle is on the bottom of the seabed.Īs I’m sitting here waiting for the doors to open a party of fifty kids has turned up – noisy ones – and three teachers as well (even noisier than the kids) all marching around like stressed-out sergeant majors. ![]() It just sits on the surface like its sailing on the sea, and when you descend into the basement you can see it hanging in mid-air above you, like a giant chandelier. Imagine a mound of glass with a boat dropped on top. It’s quite clever the way they’ve done it. Ah, nostalgia! But these days it appears to be floating on top of a big blue greenhouse of glass. When I was a kid this boat used to be beached inside a dry concrete dock by the water’s edge, and all the stale rainwater would collect in the corners with a dirty stew of sticks and polystyrene cups. ![]() It takes about an hour to go from Big Ben to Greenwich pier, and when you disembark at the other end the Cutty Sark will be right in front of you. Tube trains should be banned to Greenwich because you’re missing out on the best bit: the river ride. Good for kids? ★ ★ ★ Value for money? ★ ★ ★ Worth a visit? ★ ★ ★Ĭraig’s review… If you’re planning on visiting Greenwich for any reason whatsoever then take my advice and catch a boat from Westminster Bridge.
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