Athens Olympics

If you want to blow your budget... go to the Olympics!!

Cost for transportation, accommodation and event tickets were outrageous. If you are planning on going to the Vancouver/Whistler Olympics better start saving now!! I managed to spend $300 Canadian a day.
The Athens Olympic Games were costly however, was worth every minute of it. Buying event tickets is like gambling, it is addicting. A way I learned to cut costs was to wait outside a venue right before the beginning of an event, scalpers and people stuck with an extra ticket were usually easier to bargain with and buy the ticket below face value.

The Olympics to me is the most incredible event it the entire world! Over 200 countries come together in peace to celebrate humanity and sporting achievement. The Olympics promotes peace and fare play something you do not see often in professional televised sports. The Olympics by fare has been the best experience I have ever had to celebrate the fact “I AM CANADIAN” and to embrace other countries and cultures.


The Olympic village was an inconceivable sight with over ten extraordinary stadiums housing swimming pools, valedrome, tracts etc. The Olympic stadium is by fare the most increadable 21st century building I have been in. Vancouver is going to have to do a lot of work to make BC Place Stadium look anything like Athens Olympic Stadium come 2010.

The Canadian Olympic Committee did a fantastic job organizing Canada House a three story building in the heart of Athens where Canadians could go and meet other Canadians. The house offered free breakfast, free pop, free food, free flags, free internet, it even had a Roots store. There where flat panal TV screens where you could watch CBC live as they followed the Canadian athletes throughout the games. Canada House was my home away from home.