On Sunday, we had an American skater over with us for training and afterwards a few of us decided to head to Hyde Park to watch some Generalised Olympics onna a big screen, drink beer and be merry in Hyde Park.
Sadly for us, this was not to be realised, as there is a ban on any kind of sporting equipment being taken into the park. This caused us a problem because the girls all had their skates on them, never mind that they wouldn't work on the woodchips or even grass of the park. Even if they hadn't had their skates, helmets are also a no-no! Annoyingly too, the security guards, when told what was making the bags so heavy
before they went through the scanners only told us afterwards that we couldn't go in. Grr. A team leader did appear pretty sharpish to check on what was going on, but sadly wouldn't relent under the guise of 'if we let skates in, we'll have to let footballs, frisbees etc in too', which is kind of sensible but also kind of dim as the skates couldn't be used but a football could be. Oh well.
My quip that they were letting hundreds of people in wearing trainers, clearly sporting equipment and what if people ran around, was met with the kind of grumpy humph and roll of the eyes that said to me that they had heard that one rather a lot!
So we repaired to a rather nice pub that was 'definitely not recommended *wink wink*' by one of the games volunteers standing at an information hut near the entrance and watched Team GB beat Canada in beach volleyball.
Has anyone made it into Hyde Park? Is it worth making a trip sans sporting equipment?
