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Belugas and BigMacs in Beijing
The next morning we got up late and go to a café on our street for breakfast. We had explored it earlier in the week and were surprised to find tons of pastries, cakes, and bread items for sale along with some hot drinks. However, it wasn't quite the Starbucks we were expecting. Upon closer inspection the pastries and breads looked like really weird versions of the ones we get at home. Still, we were pumped to try the Chinese take on a French bakery. So we ...
Beijing
... price around 1/2 the starting price of that mentioned by the vendor. In our experience the average mark up starting price has been up to 8-10 times the price we eventually paid! Also, we have observed that many things here are not as they first appear. We have seen lots of fake Starbucks lookalike coffee shops, cars that look like European luxury makes until you get up close and of course lookalike Apple products of every type. It's akin to shopping in the January sales in ...
Day 1 Beijing
... now it is a beautiful sunny day and pretty warm at around 29 degrees. Well from where I have just come from that is practically winter... So to get any sense of space - head towards the sunshine. Luckily i put my factor 30 on today! The Forbidden City is huge and absolutely amazing. Just what I expected, but with more people. The audio tour is good and automatically stops and starts as you enter/ exit certain areas. There are very few places to sit down and walking around ...
Beijing - the final days
... at least a third of the asking price) by just walking away, but in the end unless you need it, its just all **** really. I ended up buying a blue Salvatore Ferragamo purse for the equivalent of about $5 AUD. Lets see how well it lasts. Oh and a couple of pashminas. One I got for about $30, the other (3 floors below) for about $7 – both exactly the same, except for the colour – so yup that shows you can bargain if you persist as much as they do. But for anyone who ...
Following in the footsteps of Sue Barker
... sign on a piece of cardboard which had been selo-taped to someone’s front door. We laughed at each and kept looking for the real entrance…until we realized that this ******, soggy cardboard sign was indeed the real entrance to the ‘Beijing Undeargruund Sity’. It was basically a door into someone’s dingy living room and at the end of the room was, what looked like, some stairs leading into a basement. As if that wasn’t ...
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