Just arrived in London for a meeting later today to be greeted with the news everywhere that the 2012 Olympic Games will be held in London.
As I write this in my hotel room near Hyde Park, some air force jets have just flown over trailing red, white and blue smoke. Terrific!
So London beat Paris. I posted earlier today that it’s all happening in France at the moment. Not with this, though. Perhaps M. Chirac shouldn’t have criticized British cooking so much 😉
Neville, when I saw this headline in my feed reader this morning, I just naturally assumed you were praising the fine bloggers in London who are putting on their own BlogHer Meetup to coincide with the BlogHer conference hapenning in Santa Clara:
http://consumingexperience.blogspot.com/2005/07/london-bloggers-meet-sunday-31-july.html
I think I need a day off!
Interesting that the ‘host’ city website http://www.london2012.org has crashed immediately after the announcement. They will need to re-think this in 7 years!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tebbo/24099810/
Worst day to visit London – are you OK Neville?
Hope you’re OK..looks bad
Quick comment – Drew, thanks for asking.
Yes, I’m fine. Been in a meeting this morning in my hotel, now seeing on the TV news all the horror of what’s been happening here this morning re the terrorist attacks at tube stations and on buses.
Will I get back to Amsterdam later this afternoon, with all transporation in London completely in chaos? I’ll find out soon!
FYI, now back in Amsterdam. I’ve received so many emails and voicemails asking if I’m ok. Thank you.
I’ve posted about it here:
http://www.nevon.net/nevon/2005/07/safe_and_back_i.html