Sunday, September 09, 2012
Yesterday - the Paralympics are slipping away.
Yesterday.........what a day!
The last day of athletics in the stadium - and we were there again.
Wonderful day.
We began our 3rd London jaunt a little away from the Olympic Park.
Wise move - for on that very hot Saturday - the last day of most competition, the world and his wife were in the park.
We got off the tube at Bethnal Green and walked the short distance to Victoria Park - an old park. It was opened to the public in 1845.
We met a pearly king in the station.
And on a hot Saturday lots of people were enjoying the facilities.
We had our picnic in the shade in a small sort of summer house.
Then we walked round the lake and bought a cup of tea, which we enjoyed with the cake from our picnic.
This was part of our view.
We chatted with an older lady who could remember coming to the park with her mother and being taken for a ride on a sort of barge on the lake for sixpence.
Lot's of people were in little boats - at a cost of £10 for half an hour for 4 people.
Times change.
Then we walked along the Hertford Canal. Very peaceful.
We then had a short distance of street walking until we reached The Greenway, which would take us into the Olympic Park.
I will post pictures of the first part of our day, later in the week.
The Paralympics gave us everything - us and all the other 80,000 people.
We had seats in row 6 which were very good.
There were no British medallists but nobody in the stadium seemed to worry about that.
The people who were there seemed to understand that there was more to life than nationalism.
Everybody was applauded and cheered joyfully, no matter what their race, colour or creed or level of disability.
Love was in the air!
Sad to see this time end. I really hope that this summer has inspired people to do sport or do good and to feel warmth to all good people, whatever their nationality.
I took lots of pictures again - too many for a blog.
They are on Flickr.
I have now upgraded my Flickr page.
I does seem to be easy to create a slide show.
I hope you enjoy the pictures and can understand why the event was so important to me.
Some of the pictures are not of a really high standard - we were too far away from most of the action. And I used the big screen in the stadium to show a little more than I could actually do.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/monklandpaula/
For now, I hope you enjoy this picture.
The last day of athletics in the stadium - and we were there again.
Wonderful day.
We began our 3rd London jaunt a little away from the Olympic Park.
Wise move - for on that very hot Saturday - the last day of most competition, the world and his wife were in the park.
We got off the tube at Bethnal Green and walked the short distance to Victoria Park - an old park. It was opened to the public in 1845.
We met a pearly king in the station.
And on a hot Saturday lots of people were enjoying the facilities.
We had our picnic in the shade in a small sort of summer house.
Then we walked round the lake and bought a cup of tea, which we enjoyed with the cake from our picnic.
This was part of our view.
We chatted with an older lady who could remember coming to the park with her mother and being taken for a ride on a sort of barge on the lake for sixpence.
Lot's of people were in little boats - at a cost of £10 for half an hour for 4 people.
Times change.
Then we walked along the Hertford Canal. Very peaceful.
We then had a short distance of street walking until we reached The Greenway, which would take us into the Olympic Park.
I will post pictures of the first part of our day, later in the week.
The Paralympics gave us everything - us and all the other 80,000 people.
We had seats in row 6 which were very good.
There were no British medallists but nobody in the stadium seemed to worry about that.
The people who were there seemed to understand that there was more to life than nationalism.
Everybody was applauded and cheered joyfully, no matter what their race, colour or creed or level of disability.
Love was in the air!
Sad to see this time end. I really hope that this summer has inspired people to do sport or do good and to feel warmth to all good people, whatever their nationality.
I took lots of pictures again - too many for a blog.
They are on Flickr.
I have now upgraded my Flickr page.
I does seem to be easy to create a slide show.
I hope you enjoy the pictures and can understand why the event was so important to me.
Some of the pictures are not of a really high standard - we were too far away from most of the action. And I used the big screen in the stadium to show a little more than I could actually do.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/monklandpaula/
For now, I hope you enjoy this picture.
