London 2012 blog

As part of the London Festival of Architecture we decided to take a canal boat tour, an opportunity to see one of London’s most interesting areas on water and to check on progress at the Olympic Park site. My interest in this trip was both professional and personal. I once lived close to Limehouse Basin (in a ridiculously expensive one-bedroom riverside apartment that I shared with two other impoverished students), I like boat trips (any excuse to be travelling on water) and I work in environmental planning, so the management and delivery of a project on the scale of the London 2012 Games fascinates me.

We assembled at Limehouse Basin on a sunny Saturday morning and were briefed by a man from British Waterways before climbing aboard. We chugged out of the basin at a snail’s pace, weighed down somewhat by the 60 or so passengers. I don’t think the boat had ever carried that many folk before.

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