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• Leave the chapel, and walk straight down to the water—enjoying the sweeping views
across to the Docklands. When you hit the river, turn right for a quick...
Riverside Stroll
Looking back toward the Old Royal Naval College, notice how it's split into two parts;
reportedly, Queen Mary didn't want the view from the Queen's House blocked. The col-
lege's twin-domed towers (one giving the time, the other the direction of the wind) frame
the Queen's House, and the Royal Observatory Greenwich crowns the hill beyond.
Wander east along the Thames on Five Foot Walk (named for the width of the path).
From here you can see the big, white, spiky
O2
dome a mile downstream. This stadium
languished for nearly a decade after its controversial construction and brief life as the Mil-
lennium Dome. Intended to be a world's fair-type site and the center of London's year
2000 celebration, it ended up as the topic of heated debates about cost overruns and its
controversial looks. The site was finally bought by a developer a few years ago and re-
christened “The O2” (a telecommunications company paid for the naming rights). Today
it hosts sporting events and concerts. Next to the O2 are the towers of the Emirates Air
Line aerial gondola, which ferries passengers from the O2 and across the Thames to, es-
sentially, nowhere.
