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Olympic Park pictures

I walk through the park to get from my hotel to the Convention Centre. Bird's Nest, Watercube, National Indoor Arena, Digital Beijing are still standing. Other things have been demolished and replaced with paving or grass. This is much used as promenade or recreation space by locals.

CNCC Is a very swish place. We occupy about a half. There are enormous rooms and small ones with those folding venue walls. The auditorium appears to be a copper ball suspended within the centre and is used for some of concerts,as it seats c250.

I hope this link will give you a virtual tour. Tour

Apparently the government has paid for over a thousand China nationals to come to conference . There are about 800 internationals. Performers of all kinds number about 2500, though they are not all there all the time. The centre facilities seem ably to cope with all these demands. Catering. Hot meals seems to expand every day. Everything is scrupulously clean and most staff very young and friendly. It is odd seeing all these boys in uniform nominally acting as security.

Most Chinese delegates are young females and they wear a stunning array of fashions and makeup in all sorts of gaudy colours, so that they looks like clouds of exotic butterflies. However I could not wear that much synthetic fabric in this heat.

Today's concerts were nick Bannen's chapel choir from University of Western Australia and a Newfoundland children's choir called Shallaway, who ware stunning.

Shallawy

The Wintrhop singers

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