As a black swan, this is way more likely to swim down the Thames in London than 99% anything which Europeans would dream.
The Queen, her husband Prince Philip, and other members of the Royal Family, sailed down the Thames during the pageant and then moored for hours in the rain to watch the vessels sail past.
Take a cycle or a walk down the Thames Path, a hassle free highway that takes you from the hustle and bustle of the West End out to desolate wharves and wildlife havens, finishing at Greenwich, home to one of the Olympic sites.
As well as explaining the underlying physiology, she makes several detours into the history of science, recounting such breakthroughs as the invention of the thermometer and the voyage of the first submarine, which was built around 1620 and cruised down the Thames from Westminster to Greenwich.
The torch, which arrived on a boat driven by football star David Beckham down the River Thames, had been carried into the stadium by five-time Olympic gold medalist Steve Redgrave.
Forgive me for saying, but those who choose "internet" over "Internet" are as wrong as those who would visit london, meet the queen or go for a boat trip down the river thames.
The Royal Docks is a stretch of land in east London running from Stratford down the River Lea to the Thames, and is already home to the ExCeL exhibition and convention centre and London City Airport.
The cycle from London leads west down Grosvenor Road along the Thames towards Richmond and is easily manageable thanks to well-maintained roads and a mainly flat route.
Services are expected to start running from 2017, including the south-east section down to Abbey Wood, which will open up the Thames Gateway.
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The Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant will journey down river from Putney to Tower Bridge on Sunday 3 June.
He told BBC London the alternatives offered by Gatwick, Stansted and two sites in the Thames Estuary should be concentrated on, and the idea of Heathrow expansion "closed down".
When you get to the crest of the bridge over the Thames River, you can see the center of global innovation in undersea warfare a mile down-river to your right, the Electric Boat division of General Dynamics.
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Everything he says and does from his power base (which is appropriately down river from Westminster and on the other bank of the Thames) will be seen through the prism of his scarcely-concealed political ambition.
In 2008 Mrs Pemberton's family received an apology from Thames Valley Police saying the family had been let down by "standards of basic policing".
The Carlton boss's coup in snatching the licence for London weekday television from under the nose of Thames TV boss Richard Dunn, was largely down to his knack of knowing just how to pitch a deal.
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