Lc The St Regis Beijing

... Then we went out with some friends and went to a western bar where everyone was celebrating. Last weekend Graham and I went on a little day trip with our travel group at China Study Abroad. It was really fun! We went to the drum towers, the Houtongs and took a rickshaw ride! The drum tower is what they used a long, long time ago to tell the time. It is similar to a church bell, but instead they beat drums. They did a drum performance for ...

... the air got so thin that it didn't really matter, and it was thinning out the farther up you came. Then lunch at a short visit to a cloisonne factory, also known as enamel-ware. These are colourful decorative objects, most often vases and jewellery, made by making little compartments on a surface and then filling with enamel before polishing several times... sounded very tiring.... maybe it was just my legs throbbing from running up and down ...

... he said the guards needed to explain to us soemthing and as he could spea better english he had come to tell us what was going on. It appeared that although we had two small flimsy tickets we actually needed a bigger ticket and a Swedish girl called Neske somehow had a ticket for 5 people which included the Canadian guy, a vietnamese guy and us! We also found out at this time that we would be changing trains at the border onto a chinese train ...

... can be fit into a skyscraper apartment block than a courtyard house!). An old lady lived alone in the house we visited. She was kind enough to offer us green tea and answer our questions. She was an accountant before retiring. Lovely lady (check the picture). Her and our English-speaking guide praised my Chinese pronounciation after I mentioned we would be travelling to Chengdu and Guilin. After I recognised the word ...

... it was pretty cool... first clean and like trendy looking place i saw. i liked it there, and i was real pumped when i saw harry potter in english... so pumped i decided to go to the bank to take out money to buy it. after the part where you're supposed to get money, it said, 'sorry, your card has been captured.' pretty good. i went inside and asked them what the deal was and luckily i got my card back. i thought maybe it was because i didn't go to ...

... is aangekomen. Aangezien de procedure op het vliegveld van Beijing anders gaat dan in andere plekken (eerst door de douane, dan inchecken), nemen we noodgedwongen eerder afscheid. Ik besef me pas later die dag dat ik er voorlopig weer alleen voor sta. We hebben weer wel veel gezien en lol gehad. Ik heb er nu al weer zin in als ze de volgende keer (eind april) weer langs komt. Ik ga weer aan het werk. Het is weer lekker druk nu ...