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A walk in the Olympic Park Nice flowers in the Olympic Park Getting tickets to London 2012 has to be the most difficult challenge of the Olympics. Forget the Synchronised Drowning and the Orbit Climbing. Just spend your days in front of a computer pressing SEARCH on a site powered by Ticketmaster. The hours of personal sacrifice, frustration and unrewarded effort. There are no Silver Medals for coming second in this game! The tickets appear on the site, you press request and get a window, complete with a spinning Union flag inspired logo, that makes you wait 15 minutes. By the time it counts down the tickets are no longer available or, more irritatingly, the system just logs you off. We are now experts at deciphering those weird, out of focus, characters that have to be keyed in if you want to return to the challenge. I think they should make 'logging in' part of every Olympic event. How entertaining would it be if Usain had to do this before taking to the starting blocks...

Walking at Sportgastein On the way up to Hagener Hutte Summer Cycle Rides Cycling up to the Strohlehen Alm above Dorfgastein Arriving at the Rastotzen Alm 1740m above Bad Hofgastein Settling in for a Stiegl at the Rastotzenalm The view from the Schmaranzhutte above Bad Hofgastein Arriving at the Schmaranzhutte 'Wiedneralm' 1768m They all marched up to the top of the hill - and then marched down again Hitting the high notes - The band on the hill at over 2000m Marching down  High Church? Sunday Service Our paths crossed - a whistling Marmotte