Since the Paralympics finished much of the Olympic Park site has not been accessible to the public whilst buildings were adopted to their longer term use. The park, soon to be renamed the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, is huge (1 sq km). In the week that a local professional football (soccer) club secured a long…
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Olympic (sorry Queen Elizabeth Olympic) Park opens for guided tours 29 March to 6 May
The Olympic Park, now renamed the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is opening it’s door to the public for a short period so that we can enjoy a Park in Progress Tour. The good thing about this is that includes entry to the ArcelorMittal Orbit, which I photographed when I visited the Paralympic Games. The Orbit…
Living in an Olympic City – Part 15 – Answers and Questions
As we draw to the end of the Olympics commentators and the public start to try and score the London 2012 games against other games in the past, to ask questions about strange events that happened during the games and to work out whether the games were in the spirit of the Olympic movement. There…
Living in an Olympic City – Part 14 – Where did Team GB get all those Gold Medals? Scratchcards.
The Olympics have become a curious national obsession in the UK over the past week. After the success of the Opening Ceremony, which all of the UK newspapers liked (an incredible rarity), and the UK winning several medals, the whole nation has engaged with the Games. Demand for any unsold tickets is huge – there…
Living in an Olympic City – Part 13 – Gold or Trains – which is better?
Apart from the extraordinary sight of a winning Gold Medalist taking public transport home in the small hours of the morning: Ruben Limado from Venezuela won Gold in Fencing, and took the DLR in to Central London, complete with Gold Medal, to the cheers of the other passengers. Apart from that – well there hasn’t…
Living in an Olympic City – Part 12 – Getting Around
I had to attend a meeting yesterday very close to London Bridge Station – where huge crowds were forecast – and started my journey in north London, near one of the Olympic venues. I also had to meet a colleague outside Tate Modern, and whilst there were a lot of people about, it was not…
Living in an Olympic City – Part 11 – The Torch in Camden Town
On the last full day of the Olympic Torch relay it came closest to my house in London. I decided I would get up early this morning and go down to Camden Town in the hope that being nearly at the start for the 26th July would mean less crowds than later. I arrived at…
Living in an Olympic City – Part 10 – And so it begins
Well, about an hour ago London offically became on Olympic City when the special road lanes for Olympic VIPs opened. Nicknamed ‘Zil Lanes’ by many Londoners – a reference to the VIP lanes in the former Soviet Union – they came in to action at 6am this morning. Trespassing in to them, be it car,…
Living in an Olympic City – Part 9 – Mass Bell Ringing!
In what seems like a typically British experience, there is to be mass bell ringing on Friday to mark the start of the Olympics. Other countries send their car owners out to hoot their horns when they win at football, and the US Midwest is ‘famous’ for people shooting guns in the air on New…
Living in an Olympic City – Part 8 – Transport Changes
Arrival of President of International Olympic Committee The Daily Mail reports the arrival of Jacques Rogge at Heathrow and, complete with Police outriders, he gets to use one of the temporary Olympic lanes. Also interesting to note that Mr. Rogge is now also able to make decisions around prosecutions as they relate to Olmypic matters.…
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