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  • Updated By fishandchips on July 18, 2006
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  • At White Hart lane - home of Spurs - London
    At White Hart lane - home of
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    Football (or Soccer if you are from the USA) is the main game of the English. They are totally passionate about the game. To understand what I mean you have to go to a match and see for yourself. There is a huge amount of chanting, singing, abusing and joking that goes on. You just can't start to understand the passion without going. The level of passion hits a real high point when there are local derbys played (eg Spurs vs Arsenal, Man Utd vs Man City, Liverpool vs Everton). Tickets are very hard to find for these games as they are normally sell-outs but you can try contacting the club of which game you want to go to and find out how you can get tickets. Generally tickets are sold as season passes with the rest up for grabs for clubs members first. The price of a ticket is around 20 pounds unless you get one from a scalper - then it's either much more or really cheap if you find one who can't sell his tickets!

    Make sure that you plan ahead and either wear the colours of the local team or something that is different to both. Wearing the oppositions colours and sitting with the home supporters could be asking for trouble - especially if the home team has a loss!!

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    MCC Cricket Museum
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  • Updated By St_Vincent on April 29, 2006
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  • The Ashes Urn - London
    The Ashes Urn
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    The MCC cricket museum at Lords is the oldest sports museum in the world dating back to 1953 and takes you through 400 years of cricket history with paintings, photos, artefacts and old cricketing equipment. All the great players are featured from WG Grace to Don Bradman to Ian Botham and even a broken bat used by current England favourite Andrew Flintoff. Then there is the macabre sight of the famous stuffed sparrow which was killed in flight by a cricket ball hit by Jehengir Khan back in 1936. But the star attraction of course is the ashes urn dating back to 1882. In that year England were beaten on home soil for the first time by Australia and a newspaper printed an obituary to English cricket stating that the body would be burned and the ashes taken to Australia. Later that year England went to Australia and after beating them their captain Ivo Bligh made a speech about retrieving the ashes of English cricket. He was later given a small urn full of ashes (allegedly from a pair of cricket bails) that he bought back to England. The original urn now sits in the MCC museum and a replica is awarded to the winning team in the England vs. Australia “Ashes” series of cricket matches that take pace every couple of years. Admission is £3 and a visit can be combined with a tour of the Lords ground.

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  • Address: St John's Wood Rd, London, NW8 8QN
  • Phone: 020 7616 8595
  • Directions: The museum is located in Lord's Cricket Ground, nearest tube stations St John's Wood (Jubilee) or Warwick Avenue (Bakerloo).
  • Website: www.lords.org
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    2012 Olympic Games
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  • Updated By JulesH on July 18, 2005
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  • Thank You London - London
    Thank You London
    by JulesH
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    London has won it's bid campaign to host the 2012 Olympic Games here in the capital. I could not be happier! This city will be transformed over the next few years. The plans for the East of London are impressive to say the least, check the website will see how it will look. The economy and housing will benefit from the boost in tourism and the building of an athlete village which will take place in preparation for what we hope will be the best Games ever! I'm passionate about the fact we will host an Olympics in my home town...I hope we will make it an Olypics to be proud of and make the most of the opportunities which arise from this great honour.

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  • Website: www.london2012.org/en

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    SB's Olympic guide : Tip 10, Beach Volleyball
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  • By sourbugger on July 15, 2005
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  • Not completely gratuitous - London
    Not completely gratuitous
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    It would appear that the concept of 'beach' has been pretty much dropped here. If the olympics had gone to Paris then matches would have been played under the Eiffel tower. In London the chosen location is Horse guards parade behind Whitehall. Normally used for ceremonial square-bashing such as the annual 'Trooping the colour' military parade, many think that the location was picked for the historic and asthetically pleasing backdrop. Sourbugger has a theory that the real reason has more to do with the little known fact that Prince Philip can train high powered binoculars from the third floor of Buckingham place through a gap in the trees in St James's park onto the site.

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    SB's Olympic guide : Tip 1, Transport
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  • By sourbugger on July 7, 2005
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  • Stratford Station - London
    Stratford Station
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    Stratford station will become the transport focal point for the 2012 Olympics. The new station has wom many awards, although I'm not sure it will cope with the supposed train every 15 seconds. The station will combine a number of heavy rail lines, and the Jubilee underground line. Most importantly it lies on the Channel Tunnel High speed link. This means the site will be easily accessible from places like Paris (tough luck suckers) and Brussells. P.S Don't confuse this Stratford with the much more famous Stratford on avon - which is a long way from here ! I suspect they may rename it 'Olympic central' or something like that.

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    Ice Skating in Christmas
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  • Updated By Manyana on December 17, 2006
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  • iceskating train:D - London
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    Christmas is the best season for iceskating. Usually it starts from November through January or February. Friends and I went down iceskating in East London, at Canary Wharf. The rink is actually made up of ice boards, kept at a certain degree so it won't melt as far as i could tell...however, we were skating while it was very wet. i fell over twice, once got fully wet, the second time i was almost rescued by three persons,lol. That was really fun. It was my first experience ever of iceskating. I was a bit afraid at the beginning but being with friends just broke the chain of fear, and pushed me a bit to enjoy my time:) You'd try it really, especially if you're a first timer. And remember, being courageous is not to kill your fear but to act despite your fear...someone told me!

    iceskating shoes, provided winter coat empty pockets,lol

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  • Address: ice rinks across london
  • Directions: Several companies host these rinks on several spots, such as Somerset House, Queensway, Greenwich, Hampton Court and others. I already have been to two ice rinks; Natural History Museum in south Kensington, and Canary Wharf.....

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    SB's Olympic guide : Tip3, Tennis
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  • By sourbugger on July 8, 2005
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  • London Sports Travel
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    Although the Olympics will be centred on East London, Wimbledon in South West London will be hosting the Tennis. I hope they have enough time to allow the grass to re-grow after the normal Wimbledon Championships in June / July. Don't expect much change to the venue between now and then, except for centre court gaining some kind of clever retractable roof. In SB's opinion the place should have stuck to Croquet, the sport the place was founded for. Access will be by tube. This tip also allows me to post a completely gratuitous picture of Maria Sharapova

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  • Address: Wimbledon, SW London
  • Website: www.wimbledon.com

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    SB's Olympic guide : Tip 12, Equestrian
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  • By sourbugger on July 18, 2005
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    Greenwich park
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    It always seems mightly unfair to me that they never seem to give the horse a medal. After all it's done all the hard work, the training and jumped the bloody fences. The upper-class twit on it's back has just been born into money. Anyway, if like watching the no-chin brigade trying to break their necks over 30 or so piles of logs and flowers, then the three-day eventing will take place in Greenwich park during the 2012 Olympics. The location would seen to be perfect for the spectator, shaded, undulating, pretty and affording great views of London.

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    SB's Olympic guide : tip 2, accommodation
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  • By sourbugger on July 8, 2005
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  • A typical essex girl joke - London
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    It is inevitable that London's hotel rooms will be well up to capacity for the 2012 Olympics. The organisers might go for the solution of using cruise boats moored on the Thames, but failing that, the only motto must be 'book early'. Another solution is to stay out of London itself. The main Olympic site will have no less than 10 rail lines running through it. (see Tip 1) Many of these will extend into the wilds of Essex, where there may well be more reasonably priced accommodation in such places as Chelmsford, Southend, Colchester & Clacton-on-sea. All of these places should be within about an hour of the main stadium.

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    SB's olympic guide : Tip 4, Archery
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  • By sourbugger on July 14, 2005
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  • Lord's during a little light building work - London
    Lord's during a little light
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    Archery is planned to take place on the hallowed turf of Lord's cricket ground. With a capacity of 28,000, this would seem like a bit of overkill. I suspect that this is one location where the tickets will be extremely cheap or even free in order to fill the place. The photograph comes from over 100 years ago when the place was dug up to put in train tracks. The MCC (Marylebone cricket club) got a new pitch out of that. Quite what the old buffers at the MCC will get out of the deal in 2012 ?

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