Beijing Zhejiang Hotel
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Middle Kingdom
... my seemingly malevolent clothing, my brand new snow boots capitalised on the thirty minute walk by rubbing against my ankles so hard that the resulting injury would skip blistering and jump straight to matching bruises on both legs. The temple was pleasant enough and a few hours later I was back at the hotel warming up in the sauna before heading to the lounge upstairs for what would turn out to be cold beers and even colder ...
Beijing
... I ask the guy how much and he says 10 or 20 Yuan, but I can't hear exactly which price over the noise of the clamouring market so I just give him the nod and the sign language for 1 serving. He passes me 6 dumpling and I pass him 10 Yuan. He's insistent that I owe more money so I assume he must have been saying 20 Y and I pass over my only other note, 100 Y (£10) expecting 90 Y change, to my surprise and increasing horror he keeps asking for more!?!? I know it can't be more ...
Paparazzi
... The next day we left Beijing for Taishan, a city in between Beijing and Shanghai. The purpose of stopping here was to climb to the top of mount Tai, one of China's famous mountains. Here we would climb about 3000 stairs to get to the gateway at the top. But first we had to take a 7 hour train, packed with people and lacking air conditioning on seats about as comfortable as a wooden board. I'm still not sure which was more difficult. But that is another ...
Beijing - the final days
... the 5 layers I need to keep the cold at bay takes me about a half an hour and then another half an hour to get out of them. Anyway I'm not whinging, because its a normal part of life here, as it is in other cold parts of the world. But as a child of the tropics, its definitely something I don't think I could ever get used to.
Anyway I spent the time pretty much going to the last of Beijing's "big" attractions. Except for one - the Summer Palace. So nope I didn't ...
Following in the footsteps of Sue Barker
... which had English translations everywhere (thank god for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, it now means that most important signs are bilingual). The first thing we noticed about Beijing was the smog; the whole city seems to be shrouded in a heavy white cloud, sometimes it’s so thick and muggy you feel like you can taste it and feel it brushing against your face like a fine warm mist. One of the most iconic sights we’ve been looking forward to seeing in ...
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