McGuigans To Reunite

It has been over 160 years since two brothers, Henry and James McGuigan left their beloved family and home in Ireland for an incredible adventure searching for gold in the far distant land of Australia. I am travelling from Australia to our ancestral homeland to meet McGuigan relations living in and around Maghera Northern Ireland. Our McGuigan family has lived in this area since the 1700's and possibly even earlier. This historic journey back to Ireland with its majestic scenery, inspiring people and history promises to be filled with excitement and amazing discoveries culminating in the gathering of the clan at Maghera on Sunday 22nd July 2012 for a day of joyous celebration. My much anticipated adventure begins on Friday 29th June 2012......

Sunday 29 July 2012

Day 30 London England Sunday 29th July 2012

What a great day ahead today as we have tickets to the womens hockey at Olympic Park. The match is between Australia and New Zealand however it starts at 8.30am which means we have to leave our hotel very early. It takes about half an hour to get to Olympic Park on the tube and then another half an hour or so to get through security and walk to the hockey arena within the complex. Rain is forecast for today so we have packed our raincoats. I am really looking forward to seeing Olympic Park for myself as we have heard so much about it here on the news.

I haven't got much time now but I will try to quickly write about our fantastic day at Wimbledon yesterday. We caught the tube along with 50,000 other people to the tennis on a beautiful warm sunny day. When we arrived at Wimbledon there was a huge queue as apparently there was trouble with fake tickets circulating around. Once the queue started moving it wasn't long and we were inside those hallowed gates. Gee, it was great to see the whole spectacle unfolding in front of us. We made our way to Court 1 and were delighted to see that we would get to see Sam Stosur play in the second game. We were sitting next to a couple of Aussie's and we also seconded two Venezulan guys to make some noise for Sam - she tried hard but the Spaniard was just too good.




We spent most of the day at the tennis and saw some great matches. I would love to come back in the future to attend the Wimbledon tennis tournament as it is truly a world class venue. We went to a great pub on the way home then had an early night ready for our 5.45 am start this morning.

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