by Arash Hekmat
Caravanners and motorhome owners will have a unique chance to watch the Olympic torch being carried to London if they stay at two Shropshire holiday parks later this month.
The famous symbol of the Games is set to be carried past the entrances of Oxon Hall Touring Park and Oxon Pool Holiday Home Park in Shrewsbury on May 30th.
The route for the torch will see it carried through Bicton, between Oswestry and Broseley, where these parks are located.
From Shrewsbury, torchbearers will then carry the flame on towards London, where it will reside during the 2012 Olympic Games.
Edward Goddard, managing director of Morris Leisure, which owns both of the parks, welcomed the news that the Olympic torch will be passing so closely by.
“It will give visiting caravanners and local people a once in a lifetime chance to welcome the Olympic flame to Shropshire, share in the excitement of the relay and celebrate the fantastic achievements of the torchbearers,” he said.
The Olympic is scheduled to pass through 1,000 cities, towns and villages in the UK over 70 days in the build-up to the Games, starting in Land’s End, Cornwall, on May 19th.
This news has coincided with the lighting of the Olympic torch today (Thursday 10th May) in Olympia, Greece. The torch will travel across Greece for the rest of the week before arriving in Lands End, Cornwall on the 18th of May.
From Cornwall the torch will travel across England, carried by 8,000 members of the public and celebrities until it reaches London on the 27th July.
