Accreditation and Uniform

The reason for leaving London a week before the Olympic Games began was to collect my accreditation and uniform before attending a training day.
Just before 13.00, I took the first of many Metro journeys from St Charles to Rond-Point du Prado which was next to the Parc Chanot and the Accreditation Centre. Unfortunately, there had been a cyber attack on Microsoft in the morning and Paris 2024's accreditation system was down.
Rather than wasting the afternoon, I walked for 30 minutes to find the Golden Tulip Hotel which was one of my venues to volunteer as a Doping Control Chaperone. After walking through the Parc Borely and continuing along the promenade, I went to the Accreditation Office at the Marina and got my accreditation for Marseille. However, I still needed my Paris accreditation for the Paralympics plus a public transport ticket for Marseille. I was told that Paris 2024's systems had been restored so I took a bus back to the Parc Chanot and joined the queue to receive my Paris accreditation and transport ticket.
The uniform had to be collected from the Decathlon shop, not in Marseille, but in Aubagne which was 20km north of Marseille and reachable only via bus or local train. Fortunately, a volunteer from Montpelier gave a lady from Strasbourg and myself a lift to the Decathlon out-of-town warehouse shop, and back to a Metro station..
For dinner, I had the plat de jour at a restaurant near the station and returned to the hotel to prepare for the training day tomorrow.
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