Saturday during my break I did a quick tour of the village by bus. Yes, there are regular scheduled bus services, just like you would have in any village.
It is roughly the size of a small town, containing appartment blocks with a max capacity of over 17.000 persons, a full fletched hospital ("poli-kliniek"), a huge restaurant, shops, internet and regular cafe's, barber shop, discotheque, churches for all religions, post office and many many rooms and offices for the organisation, press and conferences.
Apart from that there's a similar size area with training facilities. Three (!) full athletics fields, a huge gym and many more courts, fields, terrains, etc. Apart from that there are many training sites at other venues or around town.
The appartment blocks are quite cool. All countries 'dress up' the outside of their appartment block with flags and stuff from their country. The English even shipped a real typical London Phone Booth which they placed in front of their block. The Swiss brought a life size cow (???) and the Dutch obviously adorned their area as if the Euro 2004 was still being played.
I got out at one of the athletics training sites just to have a look. Some sprinters were training and believe me, these guys are really fast! You know upfront they're fast, but if you see one running past you, then you really realise how fast that is.
As I didn't want to disturb their training, I quickly left to get back to my desk for the second half of my shift.
Roberto
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