Saturday 6 August 2016

The Olympics (then and now)


On the day that Rio held its 2016 opening ceremony, we are excited. In our house we love the Olympics. We love the chance to enjoy the world's greatest sporting extravaganza, and to settle back together in awe of the 10,500 athletes from 206 teams competing in sixteen days of world class sport.



I can't help but return to the Summer Olympics of 2012. How the nation embraced the London games, so very proud of team GB. Fia was not quite one and we had been camping in Dorset prior to watching the sailing. Of course, looking back at these pictures, it already seems a world away...