Sunday, August 12, 2012


Monday 6 th August

This was our big day at the main Olympic park, our tickets were for the evening session 18.50 -21.30hrs (£150 for each ticket !!). Set off on Overground train to Stratford (train was full by the time it arrived at West Hampstead) at about 11.30 am hoping to get to park in middle of morning athletics session to avoid the 80,000 people leaving the stadium after that session.

But it was so busy out there it made no difference because  hockey, water polo and the place where big screen is were all busy as well as the 80.00 people in Athletics Stadium.

Easy transition into Olympic Park from station, lots of direction signs and lots of volunteers with megaphones directing you, all cheerful, some on megaphones singing their instructions. Usual bag screening but no pat down search here.

Bit overwhelming once inside park because of so many people. We had planned to go and sit by big screen and watch other Olympic events but the queue to get in there was about 400 metres long so gave that a miss and ate our home made picnic lunch on one of the hundreds of  picnic tables outside one of the huge McDonald’s in the park (I think there were at least 3) and spent ½ talking to young couple with baby. Then walked further up towards hockey stadium and big screen and sat by canal bank and talked to volunteer woman about our age for about ¾ hour. She was working 14 hours a day as a driver for one of the IOC members and his family and then going home to do her paid day’s work.




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