2012 London Olympics. Day Sixteen
Sunday 12th August 2012
Evening
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So, here it was. Our last day. The last day. The Men's Marathon. The final event of the Olympics, as it has always been and could it be more apt an event. It has been a long seven years since London had been awarded the 2012 Olympics. "It’s not how fast you can go...".
We had an early start because we wanted to get to Trafalgar Square to watch the first two laps of the Marathon. We got ourselves a place on the base of Nelson's Column. Unfortunately we ended up next to some East End wide boys and their over caked in makeup and as thick as the makeup that they were badly wearing wives. Who firstly insisted on not knowing where the Marathon was going, as if the 10 deep people lining the road and thus the route weren't a clue and secondly they insisted, while at the bottom of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, that the bloke at the top of Nelson's Column wasn’t Nelson and the images around the base of the column in TRAFALGAR square were images from the battle of "WATERLOO". God give me strength...
Anyway, the Marathon went by, twice, lots of heads bobbing up and down and just how much noise did the crowds make. We then went up to Tower Hill to see the runners at the loop. It was chaos. Total chaos. The Danes were still there. Go home already. Still we got a balloon each.
We had two Wenlock walks left and we set off to Regents Park. It was stupidly hot. It’s not until you walk around Regents Park that you realise just how big it is. Lots of bird watching before going back into Leicester Square for food. Anna spent 30 minutes playing in the new water feature.
We went to Liverpool Street Station for the last Wenlock walk via St Pancras Station and the London 2012 shop. It looked like a shop at the end of the Xmas sales, it had been ravaged. There was very little to buy and what was there wasn't worth buying or their asking price either. We did get a chance to look at the Closing Ceremony programme so we got to see who would be performing later on that night.
We finished our Wenlock walk. We had completed something that we had set out to do.
We made our way back home and while packing and trying to catch up with this I also tried to watch the Closing Ceremony.
Today had been a weird day. It had a strange vibe to it. It was almost a non-event day. Here was that Mary Poppins vibe again...
Noggin xx
So, here it was. Our last day. The last day. The Men's Marathon. The final event of the Olympics, as it has always been and could it be more apt an event. It has been a long seven years since London had been awarded the 2012 Olympics. "It’s not how fast you can go...".
We had an early start because we wanted to get to Trafalgar Square to watch the first two laps of the Marathon. We got ourselves a place on the base of Nelson's Column. Unfortunately we ended up next to some East End wide boys and their over caked in makeup and as thick as the makeup that they were badly wearing wives. Who firstly insisted on not knowing where the Marathon was going, as if the 10 deep people lining the road and thus the route weren't a clue and secondly they insisted, while at the bottom of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, that the bloke at the top of Nelson's Column wasn’t Nelson and the images around the base of the column in TRAFALGAR square were images from the battle of "WATERLOO". God give me strength...
Anyway, the Marathon went by, twice, lots of heads bobbing up and down and just how much noise did the crowds make. We then went up to Tower Hill to see the runners at the loop. It was chaos. Total chaos. The Danes were still there. Go home already. Still we got a balloon each.
We had two Wenlock walks left and we set off to Regents Park. It was stupidly hot. It’s not until you walk around Regents Park that you realise just how big it is. Lots of bird watching before going back into Leicester Square for food. Anna spent 30 minutes playing in the new water feature.
We went to Liverpool Street Station for the last Wenlock walk via St Pancras Station and the London 2012 shop. It looked like a shop at the end of the Xmas sales, it had been ravaged. There was very little to buy and what was there wasn't worth buying or their asking price either. We did get a chance to look at the Closing Ceremony programme so we got to see who would be performing later on that night.
We finished our Wenlock walk. We had completed something that we had set out to do.
We made our way back home and while packing and trying to catch up with this I also tried to watch the Closing Ceremony.
Today had been a weird day. It had a strange vibe to it. It was almost a non-event day. Here was that Mary Poppins vibe again...
Noggin xx
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