All very exciting - lots of beautiful blue cornflowers and poppies growing wild amid the rubble and the chain link fences, while massive cranes and diggers rumbled by shifting earth and men in fluorescent jackets wandered about, looking busy and important.
There's fab centre there, the ViewTube, made out of old shipping containers, with a cafe called the Container Cafe: you can sit on the terrace, sipping cappucino as the Olympic park unrolls before your very eyes. It was great - it really made it come home to us that London 2012 is really happening, and right in our backyard too. I started to believe the hype then and there, and got a bit excited about the Olympics coming to London. I certainly feel a tiny bit more sympathetic to weekend Tube closures for Olympics/Crossrail related shenanigans.
Feeling inspired to explore further, we followed our noses along the canal, and discovered lots of very lived-on barges and lots of this:
And stumbled across this wonderful retro branding on a building that used to be a peanut factory and is now luxury loft-style living:
Hot and thirsty after all that, we wandered across Victoria Park - pausing only to admire the roses at a sweet little garden centre called Growing Concerns - to sip cold pints of lager in the garden of The Britannia, where children and dogs frolicked while owers drank.
A summer day in London. Splendid.
Oh, very exciting, you're going to be so close to the action! I like the graffiti photo!
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