please empty your brain below
The gardens did look nice, and it was good to see them "as new" and not after a week or so of thousands of people having walked over or around them.
The park will be a pleasant feature for the area after the games have gone.
Inthe Munich Olympia Park (next door to where I'm writing this), the majority of the stadiums and arenas are very close together - it must have been verya congested during the games - however, the rest of the park has some very large landscaped areas. The London park seems to be much more spreadout along the river.
http://www.london2012.com/mm/Document/Documents/General/01/25/44/10/Restrictionsonliquidsaerosolsandgels_Neutral.pdf
Olympics officially starts today with some football...
What's the official word on using Hackney Wick station?
Wot NO Kittens!!!
Can I then take this bottle of water, or a coke, into the venue for my session, let's say the aquatics centre?
Also, I get that each venue within the Park, eg the aquatics centre, also sells food and drink within it. I guess it is like Wembley or other venues where a ring of food sellers runs round between the external doors and the entrance you take to your seats, if Ive explained that well. Let's assume Imstill carrying my drink. Or if I couldnt take it into the aquatics centre, I bought a new one inside it. Can I then take my bottle of water, or a coke, to my seat? Or do I have to consume it in the area where food is sold?
If youre able to answer,Id be grateful. I am a bit confused, not helped by London2012's use of the term 'venue' to mean the Park, but also the facilities within it such as the stadium, aquatics centre etc are each a venue too. Argh!
I went to London2012's website to check their FAQ. You have to enter search terms. So I entered 'drink' and was referred to ...their babes in arms policy. Sigh.
Help welcome, as I take meds that give me a dry mouth so I like to havea drink with me at all times, to sip. Preferably not water, I thought I could take some Lucozade sport powder to mix with water, but if the queues are 100 people then sod that. And getting orange powder in the bottom of empty bottles through security might be interesting!
Anyway, cheers if you can help.
I actually went in last night, to sing in the media centre. They didn't stop me from taking in drinks in my bag, so I snapped hubby drinking Tesco Cola in the Olympic Park, which made me laugh. Coke would have kittens!
The friendly Para who searched our car said that you may not be able to take drinks from the Park into each event venue, e.g. the aquatics centre. But that if you buy a drink from within the aquatics centre (or other event venue), you can then take it to your seat, which was a relief to me (and answers the questions I posted earlier). It does slightly contradict what you said, though (but he may be wrong, or things may have changed, etc) in that the Para saw the Opening Ceremony rehearsal and he said that there were security searches again to get into the stadium, hence the suggestion that you might not be able to take the bottle that you've filled into the stadium (but can refill it once in the stadium and then take it to your seat if you wish). Hmm. Guess we will have to wait til the sports start, to find out the exact situation that they will be applying!
And to keep up the kitty theme, which is about the most interesting thing that has happened Olympics wise so far, maybe No. 10 will donate the services of Larry to the cause?
Or maybe The Goodies will unleash the giant kitten again?
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