We've been enjoying watching the olympics from a different point of view
over here in England. Understandably, there is not a whole lot of coverage
of the Aussies in action so we've found ourselves peering into the
background of the footage to see how our country men and women are doing.
We've also been scouring The Age on-line. Fortunately for us the English
seem to have adopted Thorpe as one of their own so we at least get to watch
his races.

We were getting a bit worried at the beginning of the Olympics that the only
interviews we were going to hear would be with English competitors who had
failed to score a place, going something along the lines, "...so you didn't
really achieve what you'd hoped for out there...what happened...?". But
since the athletics and rowing have started Great Britian have been steadily
moving up the medals tally. So we've been able to see a few more positive
interviews, which always makes the olympics more fun to watch.

Henley-on-Thames is an old town situated, you guessed it, on the Thames, north west of London, near Oxford. It is the home of the Henley Regatta where Oxford and Cambridge still do their darndest to out-row each other. We didn't see the Regatta, but Henley is still a nice spot to pass an English summers day, chilling out at one of the old pubs and strolling by the Thames out into the country-side.