it would be pretty strange if i went to london during the 2012 summer olympics and didn't even mention that this was going on. yeah, so here it goes...
being that i wasn't very planned out and wasn't even sure how long i was planning to stay in london when i arrived (haha, take THAT passport control!), i had not prebooked tickets to any of the events that were happening throughout the city. being that the olympics is a pretty large event, my natural assumption was that i'd be able to work out some tickets while i was there. unfortunately, there was a glitch in this plan, as tickets were nearly impossible to come by.
well, i shouldn't say impossible, because it seemed to be pretty possible exclusively for uk citizens. as if i needed another reason to lust after citizenship. apparently, while many event tickets sold out prior to the games, there ended up being several "no shows" and there were reports in the paper over concern of showing the world only half filled stadiums. so to solve this problem, they decided to release more tickets during the event. the only problem is the genius who decided to do this didn't explain how to get said tickets. also, in order to get these tickets, apparently you had to be a uk citizen. which makes TOTAL sense for an event that represents the coming together of people from all over the world, right?!?
even though i wasn't quite able to score tickets, i didn't let missing olympic beach volleyball matches affect my experience. only enough to make slightly snide remarks on my blog, anyway. the city was covered with people from all over the world. i'm sure this isn't such a far departure from london during the summer normally, but it was a lot more obvious when all these people were wearing body paint and flags as capes. there were italians, french, germans, koreans, australians, and even the odd american here and there.
it was really great to be around, particularly when i would bump into the olympics unexpectedly. one day when trying to take a shortcut through st. james park, i walked right into crowds heading into a beach volleyball match. another day, on my way to topshop to drool over things i couldn't fit in my backpack, i was held up by a cycling race. the best, however, was the random cheering. i'd literally be walking around trying to find a sandwich or something boring and out of nowhere there would be the large cheer of a crowd. it always came out of nowhere and was gone about as quickly as it happened, but it added a little something special to my london experience. especially the time i heard a cheer just as i successfully navigated myself to a train station to make the last train home. pretty sure THAT cheer was for me...
being that i wasn't very planned out and wasn't even sure how long i was planning to stay in london when i arrived (haha, take THAT passport control!), i had not prebooked tickets to any of the events that were happening throughout the city. being that the olympics is a pretty large event, my natural assumption was that i'd be able to work out some tickets while i was there. unfortunately, there was a glitch in this plan, as tickets were nearly impossible to come by.
well, i shouldn't say impossible, because it seemed to be pretty possible exclusively for uk citizens. as if i needed another reason to lust after citizenship. apparently, while many event tickets sold out prior to the games, there ended up being several "no shows" and there were reports in the paper over concern of showing the world only half filled stadiums. so to solve this problem, they decided to release more tickets during the event. the only problem is the genius who decided to do this didn't explain how to get said tickets. also, in order to get these tickets, apparently you had to be a uk citizen. which makes TOTAL sense for an event that represents the coming together of people from all over the world, right?!?
even though i wasn't quite able to score tickets, i didn't let missing olympic beach volleyball matches affect my experience. only enough to make slightly snide remarks on my blog, anyway. the city was covered with people from all over the world. i'm sure this isn't such a far departure from london during the summer normally, but it was a lot more obvious when all these people were wearing body paint and flags as capes. there were italians, french, germans, koreans, australians, and even the odd american here and there.
it was really great to be around, particularly when i would bump into the olympics unexpectedly. one day when trying to take a shortcut through st. james park, i walked right into crowds heading into a beach volleyball match. another day, on my way to topshop to drool over things i couldn't fit in my backpack, i was held up by a cycling race. the best, however, was the random cheering. i'd literally be walking around trying to find a sandwich or something boring and out of nowhere there would be the large cheer of a crowd. it always came out of nowhere and was gone about as quickly as it happened, but it added a little something special to my london experience. especially the time i heard a cheer just as i successfully navigated myself to a train station to make the last train home. pretty sure THAT cheer was for me...
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