Thursday, August 16, 2012

Volleyball Beach

Hey ho … Back to normal.

4 comments:

Petrea Burchard said...

I don't know what this is but I like it.

dive said...

Petrea, it's Horseguards' Parade, between Downing Street and St.James's Park. It's where the Olympic beach volleyball events were held, but when I went past on a quick visit to my old office they were clearing up and it was raining and it all looked a little sad.

Petrea Burchard said...

I think it's huge and magnificent.

dive said...

It does achieve a certain magnificence when the parade ground is filled with galloping and wheeling chargers and the gallant, sabre-toting lads of the Household Cavalry are displaying their finery for the ladies; slightly less so when it's filled with thong-clad beach-ball bouncers.

When it's empty like this it makes a fine shortcut fro Whitehall to the Park at lunchtime (I do miss working in Westminster so much … sigh).