Friday night we watched the opening of the Games in the Heineken Holland House (HHH) on a large movie theatre screen in the garden. It was really fun to watch it there. They've decided to open the house to anyone above 18 instead of only the Dutch.
Thank God, otherwise the place would be packed exclusively by "important" old men reliving their days in the student fraternity house. My guess is that more than half of the people there are VIPs, sponsors, politicians, BN-ers (=Well Known Dutchies) and others with a high level of self-importance.
The place itself is quite impressive. Heineken rented this large restaurant/conference centre in a large park near the Syntagma square. They have a central area with food stands ("broodje bal"), merchandise shop, info stands, ticket centre, internet stations, news wall, many plasma TVs and of course, beer stands. Seperately there's the earlier mentioned movie screen, a relaxation garden and the dancefloor with stage. This stage will be used for performances (yesterday was Brainpower, tonight is Tiesto) and for honouring the medal winners. Tonight, Inge de Bruijn and the other 3 supporting actresses will be honoured.
The DJ is of the type "everybody happyyyyyyyyy?" and the music is somewhere in between Boney M and that Romanian tune which is currently driving everybody nuts (sorry Cosmin). If you wouldn't know better, you would think you were in Holland instead of Athens.
Check THIS LINK for our impersonation of the average HHH visitor... ;-)
Roberto
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