The Ritz-Carlton Beijing Financial Street

... to take on, old Tong?" asked another of the bodyguards.

"I'm going to find that daughter of Zhou's..." Before he could finish, he slumped to the floor. The others all started in fright, but as they jumped up to help him, and one by one, they dropped to the ground unconscious. runescape money

Xu prised the window open with sword, then leapt into the room ...

... to bed.. 2 snoring oldies from Hong Kong and a " babbling" Russian.!

The train arrived in Beijing-West at exactly 15.45.!! A huge station and after our luggage check and the new visa´s we had another luggage check?? and we stood on the biggest train square I have ever seen!! Enormous and we looked like the only 2 foreigners from Europe. They looked at us as if we were aliens..Which was strange as they just had an invasion of people after the Olympics. But we ...

... which was extremely hazy today because of the weather and pollution. There are many different temples filled with Buddhas and many Chinese buy incense, which they light on fire outside (adding to the haze) or place in a dish inside. (We saw someone taking the unlit sticks from the dishes and boxing them, probably for resale.) My favorite was the biggest, and 85-foot Buddha carved from a single block of sandalwood. I got in trouble for photographing it, oops.

After ...

... no internet in the room. The woman tried to palm us off with the business centre on the 2nd floor but we told her we booked it as it said it had in room internet. She then changed us to a 7th floor room with internet in the room. Got to the room and ate yet another of the packs of dried noodles we had packed to lighten our luggage. We bagged all the hotel toiletries so that we could use the ones we brought with us ...

... clothing" photography station. It was oh-so-touristy, but a lot of fun to dress up and take our pictures. After visiting Prince Gong's palace and having dinner we were walking to meet the bus in Ho Hai. As we rounded a corner I realized that Kate, Mom and I had walked through that exact same spot when we visited in 2006. The difference, and reason that I did not realize it earlier, is that the area has made a radical ...

... I spent 100 pounds in Boots before I came away for every eventuality possible..being the most organised person on the planet when I need to be..including a special sealed sterile set incase the worst happened)!..Anyway I noticed the foil was broken cause I have unpacked soo much and so I popped that in another zip bit (cause you can't get that sort of medication out here, so it's not like at work when you just chuck it if the foil's split)..well..I really don't know how it ...

... on the lakeside and they'll bring you Xin Jiang food which is quite good. It's actually a bit of a dive bar really, but the ambiance is great, and it's quieter than the main stretch. Or so I thought... I didn't realise the music gets played at ear splitting volume. And when it's Mongolian Throat singing, I do mean ear splitting. And because traffic was so horrendous I sat waiting for people for nearly two hours, slowly starving to death. Finally, people started ...

... wander. And there is no urgency to wander because this is the 6th time we've been here since 2005 and actually, we've wandered this place many times since 1978. And, there are not many better places to be than in this airport. Through the afternoon we had coffee at Pacific Coffee, steamed bun with BBQ pork at Lost China Snacks, child's chicken strip dinner at Popeye's, and roast duck on rice at Café de Coral. Wandered duty ...

... a few more Great Wall miles and took the speedy Toboggan ride down!... But the day was not finished (Imi & Jack were though!) We visited the Ming Tombs and a "quick walk" around The Ding Ling tomb....A satisfying, but exhausting day. A fabulous afternoon was spent exploring "our" area, the Hutong, with the shops, tiny streets and restaurants, which brings us on to the food during our stay.... Amazing.. Noodles, poodles (well maybe not ...