Olympic Beijing

In year 2008 the whole world was looking towards China as the summer Olympics were held in Beijing. Massive construct works took place before to build up required facilities and thousands of volunteers were helping tourists to find their ways in Beijing. Also during that time the majority of the street signs, subway maps, etc. were translated in English, before that it was all in Chinese (Thank god, I haven’t been here before that time :D )

There are many smaller stadiums around Beijing which offers still a training place for different sports. The stadiums are called in pure Chinese way like “Workers Stadium, “Workers Gymnasium” etc., but besides those ones there one venue above others, the main stadium for the Olympics called “The Bird’s Nest.” It is part of the bigger area which also called the Olympic center. It is in total few kilometres long area built in Northern side of Beijing according to city’s North-South Axis including some landmarks, other sport venues and lots of area for different small stalls to sell something during the events. At North of the Olympic center there is a big actual park, which I think is the biggest green park in Beijing offering a chance for people to go cycling, walking, running etc. just to spend a nice day outdoors in green environment. There is also a hill in the park which provides a nice view across whole Olympic center area.

The Bird’s Nest itself is a massive complex, having the capacity of 90 000 people and can easily spotted from a distance. There would have been an opportunity to take a tour inside the nest but I thought that seeing it outside is enough me… Hopefully I didn’t miss anything spectacular. The stadium is still on use for concerts and sport competition, I was thinking that it would be awesome to go see some concert in there. One major event when the stadium will most likely be used for some occasion, is the winter Olympics which will be held in Beijing.

It seems like that Spring is really coming to Beijing: Days have become warmer and I have noticed that wearing both a jacket and a hoodie starts to be relatively warm combination during the day times. I have been lucky enough to join sunny days with blue sky, although there has been some days when the air haven’t been that clean… I also heard that more warmer it gets, especially in the hottest time summer season, the air is really bad... So we’ll see but at least so far I haven’t wear any kind of mask yet. J