Fortunately on the other side of the road from the Olympic stadium was the Botanical Gardens & Insectarium so not far to walk this time. About twenty quid (no pound sign on this keyboard) got us access to all parts of the site and wandered around there with the SLR camera out for about three hours checking out the MASSIVE bugs and beautiful Chinese & Japanese gardens. If you were prepared to walk quite slowly and check out absolutly everything you could easily spend to whole day there, but as we had already walked a fair distance at this point we decided to call it a day and head for the bus.

On the way out of the ‘garden center’ we spotted a bike rack where you can hire a bike for about $5 and then drop it off at another bike station in the city when you’re done. “YES!!” we both said, “lets give it a go” For the first couple of miles all was good, we only had to stay on one road which has separate cycle lanes to the cars so is relatively safe. At the end of the road we got the map out and started to plan the rest of the route, this is where it all went ‘Pete Tong’. What should have been about a 30-45 min bike ride turned into a 2hr mountain climb which included stopping off at the main Hospital of all places to pick up some more water. That was prolly the most exercise I’ve had in ages (legs are only just about back to normal after two days) and was absolutely knackered when we go back. At this point the intention was to have a quick nap and then go out for some dinner. But as everyone knows what my naps are like, this became a nine hour sleep and next thing I knew it was 05:30 Tuesday morning.