My Olympic Games
Register your dog but don’t eat them - donkey still ok
The International Center for Veterinary Services is a fantastic resource for pet owners living in Beijing. As with many rules and regulations, the authorities are cracking down on people who are failing to follow the correct laws and procedures. Make sure you are up with the new regulations which have come into [...]
My Olympic Baby
In November of last year my wife Rachel and I visited Beijing to check out the build up for the Olympic Games. Not long afterwards we learnt we were pregnant with a due date of August the 3rd.
Knowing well in advance that we were going to be working on this blog and that the [...]
Behind the scenes
How do we keep on top of what’s happening at the Beijing Olympics? I have 4 inbound video streams from the games over a broadband connection. I then have a work machine with additional data and news feeds coming in and the trusty Macbook Pro which I use for my twitter feeds and [...]
For foreigners and even Chinese visiting Beijing now for the Olympics for the first time, keep it in your mind that this is not the ‘real’ Beijing you are seeing. A few months ago, Beijing has had a massive cleanup ahead of the Olympics. One of my favorite BBQ meat stick restaurants that [...]
and the top 80 suggestions have been listed at and it’s interesting to note that in that list is a certain Dame Kelly Holmes at Athens 2004 which just goes to prove that the Olympics are the ultimate for sporting emotion.
As an answerer on YAHOO Answers, I have been named as a top contributor on the subject of the Olympic Games which I would like to thank them for and hope that I will be able to pass on some of my knowledge of the Games both since 1896 and their history during the next [...]
Supporting the smaller nations at Beijing 2008
First of all I would like to thank the 2008 Beijing Olympic Blog for allowing me to post my thoughts on the 29th Games of the Modern Olympiad. I have been interested in the Olympic Games since the Seoul Olympics of 1988 (when I woke up at 2.00am British time to specfically watch the opening [...]
