We live in the Olympic city!

It's only 130 days until the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, which of course are in London this year. The Olympic Park, where most of the facilities, including the Olympic Stadium, are is in East London and as we live in the Southwest, we had not seen any of it yet.
Today we made amends and set off, with Gwilym and Janine, to Bromley-by-Bow, from where there is a guided walk past the Olympic Park every day. The walk is interesting, with lots of detail on the history of the area and of the Olympic Games in London; it is the third time that the Games are being held here, after 1908 and 1948.
Although there is no access to the Park itself (it is a high security zone), you get very close and can clearly see the main stadium, the swimming, diving and water polo facilities and other stuff a bit further away. Although the Park has officially been handed over by the developers to the organising committee (within budget and on time!), there is still quite a bit of finishing off work in progress, so it still looks quite a bit like a building site.
Close by is also a big and brand new shopping centre (Westfield) and the John Lewis store there has a nice viewing platform on the third floor from where you also have a nice view of the site.
Here are some pictures:

Stadium

Aquatic centre as seen from the DLR train

Water polo