With the Olympics now well over, the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is now open to the public - actually it opened last week, but I was doing something else then.
The park is quite near Westfield in Stratford, and that is where I got the train to. Unless you know your way around - which I don't really - it is quite difficult to find. But I found it, and walked through to the actual park, passing the swimming pool and other leftovers from the Olympics on the way.
At the moment, the Queen Elizabeth Park is far from finished - the most one can say is that the idea is there, but there;s still a lot of work to be done before it's finished. But enough has been done to show that it will be a fantastic place and a real asset the the local area and all the families that live there. Even in it's unfinished state, it was full of people, including stacks of children. Admittedly, it was a nice day, but even so, it was really alive.
The site itself is interesting, with little hills and valleys. Gardens and trees have been planted, but there is still piles of open space for children to play. There's a cafe - a bit pricey I thought - and a children's playground (not yet finished); a river and canal, a climbing wall. And, of course, a general feeling of being a nice place.
I wandered the whole length of the park, having a good look at everything - it's definitely one of the successes that has sprung from the Olympics.
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