Obligatory torch photos
Jun. 27th, 2012 09:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rich_jackoI've added photos of Monday's Torch Relay to my "Olympics" album (an album which will never feature any actual sport). This post is slightly later than I intended to owing to an interesting incident which involved being without electricity for 40 hours and having the pavement inside my railings dug up to fix it.
The event in Hillsborough Park was good fun. Yes, it was a lot of waiting for five seconds of watching the Torch go by, but it was a real festival atmosphere and we got really lucky with the weather too. It was good to see so many of you there -![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
san_valentine, clarestar, neil_h, ceehoss + squirrels, the Chivers, the Clarks, the Stothards, ju_bear and jamie_bear.
Afterwards, I headed into town to catch the end of the event in Barker's Pool. This was less fun but it was certainly an experience. I've never seen town so rammed. The crowd stretched all the way from City Hall back past the Town Hall, and I had to walk in most of a circle just to get in through an unblocked road. I missed the Torch arriving in the end, but I did see the urn burning and caught the end of the concert, plus a few of the Torchbearers hung around afterwards. I'm glad I went, but the Park was better.
The event in Hillsborough Park was good fun. Yes, it was a lot of waiting for five seconds of watching the Torch go by, but it was a real festival atmosphere and we got really lucky with the weather too. It was good to see so many of you there -
san_valentine, clarestar, neil_h, ceehoss + squirrels, the Chivers, the Clarks, the Stothards, ju_bear and jamie_bear.Afterwards, I headed into town to catch the end of the event in Barker's Pool. This was less fun but it was certainly an experience. I've never seen town so rammed. The crowd stretched all the way from City Hall back past the Town Hall, and I had to walk in most of a circle just to get in through an unblocked road. I missed the Torch arriving in the end, but I did see the urn burning and caught the end of the concert, plus a few of the Torchbearers hung around afterwards. I'm glad I went, but the Park was better.
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Date: 2012-06-27 09:10 pm (UTC)I got to touch the Torch briefly, but I didn't get to hold it.
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