18 Days in August, an Olympic Blog

As part of the Interactive art installations in Athens, these trees made of steel tubes were installed in Monastiraki Square. The novelty of these trees is that they spray thin rain from their tips. In the blistering mid afternoon heat, this attracted many sun stroke tourists, like bees to the honey!

Nearby was one of the viewing points for the road cycling event which was good fun. Everybody cheers when the cyclers passed by...no matter in what position. I can recall a strugglin Japanese cyclist who seemed to be terribly out of steam as well the Spanish champion who had an accident early on in the race and was trying to catch up, he had a big tear in his tights and did not look happy.