Centennial Olympic Park Atlanta

Spring Break 2003 !! Ahhh, the fun destinations a college student could go to ! Myrtle Beach, Daytona Beach, Mexico ! Nah, who'd want that. I'm going to Atlanta, Georgia to see a painting !

Seriously, that wasn't a joke.

I didn't have a ton of money, so my intention was to go cheap and short. I initially thought it would be a …

We arrived in Atlanta at about 7am and headed towards the hostel. It was raining but less than a mile away and we'd been sat for 9 hours so we decided to walk it. When we got to the hostel, someone was leaving and kindly let us in, but we found that there was no one on reception so waited in the lounge. About an hour later a woman walked in and was …

Na een vlucht van een 4-tal uur kwamen we aan in Atlanta. Het was daar al in de late namiddag aangezien we 3u verloren door de nieuwe tijdzone. We checkten in in het Motel6 motel, waar een super vriendelijke medewerker ons direct een aantal tips voor ons korte verblijf gaf. We besloten om die avond gewoon wat naar de binnenstad te wandelen, en een …

Atlanta, Georgia was a special place. I not only got to learn so much about the inspirational figure of Martin Luther King Jr but I also got to become friends with some fantastic people from my hostel. It truly made my time in Atlanta special for me.

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Ok, it's not live because it was almost five years ago...

This is where Alex and I had one of our first adventures, walking around downtown Atlanta to the Georgia Aquarium and CNN Building. We also took an elevator up to the top floor of a fancy hotel, and walked around trying to sneak peeks into the rooms, just to see what the swanky digs …

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... for a bit before going back up the street and hoeing into a fish fry that was on offer.  We then walked to Centennial Olympic park and watched the kids playing in the water.  Too cute.  Then we watched the water feature to music.  ...

... Walhaie, und im anderen waren 3 Beluga-Wale untergebracht. Wirklich gigantisch! Da das Aquarium am Rande des Centennial Olympic Park liegt, nahmen wir gleich auch noch diese superschön angelegte Grünanlage mit, welche Mittelpunkt der Olympischen ...

... -layer wall of kids plastered against the glass.  Must have been an interesting creature...I wouldn't know. Across Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park, I found the world headquarters for CNN.  They offer a tour that takes guests through windowed ...

... , CNN and Centennial Olympic Park. Did you know that Coco-Cola would be green if colouring weren't added to it ? Centennial Olympic Park has approximately 10,275,000 letters engraved on the commemorative bricks in the Park. This is enough letters to ...

... Olympics. The games themselves were marred by numerous organizational inefficiencies, as well as the Centennial Olympic Park bombing. During the 2000s, Atlanta completed its transformation into a cosmopolitan city, becoming well known for its robust ...

... in this shop with the coca cola symbol on it, I've never seen anything like it. Our only other sight was the Centennial Olympic park which was converted into a public park after being used for the 1996 games. They have a cool Olympic rings fountain so ...

... ; the new location at Pemberton Place is part of the downtown revitalization, grouping this museum and the Georgia Aquarium near Centennial Olympic Park; the Center for Civil and Human Rights and the College Football Hall of Fame open here in the near ...

... , they were huge. I tried to get a photo but they didn’t turn out very good. We walked through the Centennial Olympic Park and got saturated, and walked back to our hotel to dry out. Later the rain stopped and we went for a walk around ...

... , plus the ticket price was $13 per person for a 55-minute guided walking tour.  Across the street was the Centennial Olympic Park which was part of the 1996 Olympic Games.  We walked through the park and saw the Fountain of Rings with its ...

... now ... late on Monday night. What else have we been up to?  We've celebrated the 4th of July down at Centennial Olympic Park; been to Stone Mountain; found an 'oulet' village [more shops!]; visited Marietta where I found a house (... only kidding ...