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From Boys Night to Luxury Weekend!!!!!!!
... by the British Chamber to attend that evening at 6.30pm.
The event was at the Gallery Hotel in Gongti which is by the Workers Stadium. We arrived early as normal and Tracy changed her flat shoes for highheels before we entered. Entrance fee included 2 drinks and food. We got red wine and started to chat to people and meet a guy who came from Manton Nr Marlborough and knew the pubs we used to go too. As much as I didn't want to attend this event durung the ...
Beijing: a week in the belly of the beast
... the wall. It was a peculiar feeling to be standing on the Great Wall of China – it was like any other decaying old stone structure, but it was imbued with so much more meaning. Although the wall itself was never especially successful at keeping marauding nomads and barbarians at bay, it was an incredible feat of construction, and a symbol of centralised state power and boundary-drawing that had not been conceived in such a way and on such a scale anywhere else on Earth.
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Arrive in Beijing
... reigned from 1736 to 1795, that the Summer Palace assumed its current layout. The palace is most associated, however, with Cixi who had it rebuilt twice: once following its destruction by French and English troops in 1860, and again in 1902 after it was plundered during the Boxer Rebellion.
TEMPLE OF HEAVEN
Completed during the Ming Dynasty, the Temple of ...
Visit to the Imperial City
... money, so finally, after much arguing, we threw 6 yuan on the bike and walked away quickly. I don't know if he picked that deserted spot so that he could physically stop us if we refused, but I think more likely he didn't want to get caught by the police because what he was doing was clearly illegal. We just walked fast, without looking back, and he let us go. Clearly, this must work for him on a regular day, but we aren't your regular tourists any more.
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My First Meal in Beijing
... their families and making the most of their time off.
After using the toilet, an experience in its own right, we boarded the train for Shijiazhuang. As we made the two hour journey further and further away from the expanse of generic yet comforting international city life, I began to wonder what on earth I was doing. I fell asleep listening to English music to the background of chattering Mandarin locals. All of us were waiting to see what I would do next.
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