Irish Olympic House

Posted on 2012/08/04 10:31:46 (August 2012).

[Friday 3rd August 2012]
Having stumbled upon "Africa Village" last Sunday I'd been made aware of this concept of Olympic hospitality houses - lots of countries had them in London for the duration of the games. I found a list of them somewhere, and thought it might be interesting to try some more, so this evening persuaded a few colleagues to go along to the Irish Olympic House near King's Cross.

It was basically just a big pub they'd hired out for the duration, and not really the sort of pub I'd go to usually either. Still, I suppose it made for a bit of a break for the norm. On the plus side they had a basement bar which was decorated in the style of Father Ted's house, which was briefly quite fun.

Afterwards we were peckish so somehow decided we should go and eat Ethiopian food (somewhat of an odd follow on from an evening of Irishness) at a nearby place called Addis. It was my first time to try Ethopian food, and to be honest I wasn't all that impressed.

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