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The Olympic Museum looks so cool!! I love the bit about the different torches and they all look pretty neat to me!! I also love the photo where you really whipped Mark as he came in 3rd!!
Glad to see only the gift shop was a disappointment. So far, this is a really cool museum!
It really was amazing, one of the best I've been to in a long time.
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I know you're a huge fan so you probably already knew, but I had no idea they used to give out trophies!
No, I had no idea about that - the trophies pretty much stopped, from what I could see, before World War I, so I learnt something there.
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Yes, that would be cool if they started to do that again. And I've also never paid attention that torches are different for every Olypmics. See - you're educating others with your TR's!
WOW! I am blown away from your photos, Cheryl! I feel like I am right there with you....
Aw, thanks so much!
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The hotel you are staying in is absolutely breath taking water, flowers and etc...when you are checking out online where you want to stay and you look at the rooms to make sure that this is what you really need, it is almost magical to see what you booked online in person! You hope it is good, but it is like 10 times fabulous of what you see in person. Good for you!
I don't want to spoil things, but all I'll say at this point is that, beautiful as it looked, we ran into problems later on this trip and, sadly as a result, we won't be going back there. It's a real shame, as they messed up badly and then made things worse afterwards.
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As I was reading your Trip Report, You are really lucky that you can do this over the weekend, where as us Americans who live in USA, we would need at least a week to do this trip and then of course taking more time to travel. Just saying..... lol.
We are very lucky to have so many different countries we can go to for a weekend, you are so right about that. A lot of your states are bigger than some of the countries we have over here.
In a weekend or maybe a long weekend (two nights/three days like this one), we could probably get to all the following countries:
1) France *
2) Belgium *
3) Switzerland *
4) Spain
5) Italy *
6) Germany *
7) Czech Republic
8) Denmark
9) Austria *
10) Holland *
11) Portugal
12) Hungary *
13) Croatia
14) Malta
15) Norway *
16) Sweden *
17) Poland
You get the idea. By the way, I've put stars against the ones we've visited in a weekend/long weekend or just for a couple of nights from the UK...
I'm jealous of you being so close to some amazing European countries. For me I would have to do a good week to make it worthwhile with the jetlag and long flights as well as flight costs.
What I can say is that I've been to 9 countries on that list and I feel blessed to have done it and enjoyed every bit of it! Just for a tally I've been to 1,3,4,5,6,7,9,10 and 11. Got to visit the Eastern block eventually!
The museum looks great with so much great coverage and artifacts of the games. Well themed and done so well. Glad they have so much from the beginning in Athens of 1896 and the very early years of the games as you want to see this and how things have changed and evolved over 100+ years.
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I don't want to spoil things, but all I'll say at this point is that, beautiful as it looked, we ran into problems later on this trip and, sadly as a result, we won't be going back there. It's a real shame, as they messed up badly and then made things worse afterwards.
We are very lucky to have so many different countries we can go to for a weekend, you are so right about that. A lot of your states are bigger than some of the countries we have over here.
In a weekend or maybe a long weekend (two nights/three days like this one), we could probably get to all the following countries:
1) France *
2) Belgium *
3) Switzerland *
4) Spain
5) Italy *
6) Germany *
7) Czech Republic
8) Denmark
9) Austria *
10) Holland *
11) Portugal
12) Hungary *
13) Croatia
14) Malta
15) Norway *
16) Sweden *
17) Poland
You get the idea. By the way, I've put stars against the ones we've visited in a weekend/long weekend or just for a couple of nights from the UK...
Wow! You are so LUCKY! The only countries I have been were Ireland & United Kingdom and that was a total of 10 days- but so worth it! I think I need to consider moving to Europe....lol (I really want to go to France and to see Paris too).
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I'm jealous of you being so close to some amazing European countries. For me I would have to do a good week to make it worthwhile with the jetlag and long flights as well as flight costs.
Well, we say it's not worth going to the States for anything less than two weeks for exactly those reasons.
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What I can say is that I've been to 9 countries on that list and I feel blessed to have done it and enjoyed every bit of it! Just for a tally I've been to 1,3,4,5,6,7,9,10 and 11. Got to visit the Eastern block eventually!
We've done 12 of the 17 - I only marked off the ones we'd done in a weekend or a couple of nights, but we've done others with longer stays.
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The museum looks great with so much great coverage and artifacts of the games. Well themed and done so well. Glad they have so much from the beginning in Athens of 1896 and the very early years of the games as you want to see this and how things have changed and evolved over 100+ years.
And wow, how they've changed if you think of the opening ceremonies we get now!
Wow! You are so LUCKY! The only countries I have been were Ireland & United Kingdom and that was a total of 10 days- but so worth it! I think I need to consider moving to Europe....lol (I really want to go to France and to see Paris too).
Well, moving to Europe would certainly be one way to do it...
Sunday 6 May – part eleven: some truly amazing sights…
The next section in the museum looks at the transformation for all the Olympic cities, although interestingly I did notice there was no reference to Rio. Perhaps too early or perhaps for other reasons? As we understand it from what we’ve heard, a lot of the venues got pulled down straight after the Olympics and the regeneration benefits that other countries have had may not come there, let’s just put it that way….
A model of the “bird’s nest” stadium in Beijing Our home games
A model of the 2012 velodrome
Also in this section were the various mascots from the Games…
Not the greatest shot with the reflection
There were some fascinating souvenirs from Games gone by. As I said with the Queen Studio Experience, I love one off things like this….
The final section on this floor was all about the opening ceremonies of each Games…
You could sit and watch a video of various opening ceremonies and I got very teary eyed when they showed snippets from London. I still get so much pride every time I see anything from that night. I had hoped to one day have the Games on home soil and it still almost feels half like a dream that it happened.
We went to head downstairs and we were all immediately struck by this. How clever is it?
The first section showed you which sports took place at each Games and was really interesting…
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Then you walk through a series of more standard exhibitions – in that respect, this was more like a traditional museum. The displays were very eclectic shall we say and you did have to work hard sometimes to find the corresponding information about them, but if you did, you were rewarded with some truly amazing sights…
The baton from the 1968 Olympic Games champions and world record holders
An electric starting pistol from London 1948 – the first Games that used one of these…
The pommel horse signed by Li Donghua from Switzerland who won the gold medal
Swimsuit worn by a Russian and signed by her – she made history with another Russian by winning five Olympic golds in the sport over three different games
Usain Bolt’s vest from the 2008 Beijing Olympics
Team GB outfit of Sir Chris Hoy, two-time gold medallist, from London 2012
Mark and I both commented that the only thing we would say is that we’d have preferred to have seen a little bit more about the Paralympic Games than they had here. It’s a shame the way they always seem to get relegated in a way.
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I also love the photo where you really whipped Mark as he came in 3rd!! 
See - you're educating others with your TR's!
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