Making the most of the tube strike on Tuesday 29th June, Katy (my boss) and I headed off to Wimbledon for the evening. The tube strike started at 6.30pm, so we left work at about 4pm to meet Katy’s friend, Emma, at the station at 5pm. Walking from the station to the grounds, we were definitely going against the flow and were a bit worried we’d missed all the action, but the mob were just on their way to the station before the tube strike kicked in.

For someone that isn’t that into tennis, this was quite an experience for me, and I was wide-eyed as we walked past the hundreds of people camping on the footpath for tickets to the Tim Henman game which was on Thursday. That was real dedication! (especially since there were only about 40-50 tickets available for this match.

Ground admission after 5pm is only £8 (which gives access to courts 2-19), and they resell tickets for Court 1 and Centre Court of people that have left for the day for only £3 with the proceeds going to charity – so that meant we ended up sitting in seats that other people had paid £48-53 for the evening. In order to save ourselves from the wildly expensive, but very famous, Wimbledon strawberries and cream, we’d visited the supermarket at lunchtime and had a picnic feast packed.

Wimbledon has a fantastic atmosphere and a really nice setting with people chilling out on the grass watching matches on screens and wandering between the 20 different courts. Most of the games while we were there were mixed doubles, so the only big name we ended up seeing was Lindsay Davenport, but some of the games were fantastic with really close battles!

The games finished about 9.30pm (when it started getting too dark) and I headed to the nearest overground train station (1/2 an hour away) in order to get home.