The Olympics are Coming

The Olympics will be held in London next summer - 2012.  We saw evidence of this when we visited Greenwich as they were preparing some kind of large venue there which took most of the park.
We are being made further aware of this by all the signs posted now warning us of an important 'test event' being held this coming Sunday.  It is a bike race from London to Surrey and it will severely impact the major roads, the buses and the trains in our area.  People are being warned to "simply stay off the roads". 

That would be fine, EXCEPT - we have to get to the airport Sunday morning to fly back to Boston.

Here is the map of the closures in our area. I marked on here where our house is. You can see that we are pretty well totally TRAPPED!

We have studied the event map and the place we are living is completely surrounded by the bike route.  We assume, but are not sure that we will be able to CROSS the route (we know we can not drive on it), but even with that it is unclear how to escape our area, as the bridges over the River Thames to the north and to the south of us are both involved in the race.

We are actually planning to visit the local police station to ask their advice.  If we don't get some good answers I will lobby to spend Saturday night at a hotel out near Heathrow.  As it is we would need to leave the house at 7:30 but with road closures we would certainly need to leave earlier - EGAD.

To be continued.....