Wuyi Hotel Beijing

... Em also bought some converse which were nice and cheap. We celebrated at the end with a manicure for 2 pounds each!. When we left we found out the true joy of the srping festival, air so thick you couldnt see with firework smoke! was amazing and terrifying! Amazing. Anyway finally today we went to see the cold dead corpse of Chairman Mao (number 2 out of 3 on our list of cold dead communist corpses of Asia) and then went to Beijing zoo to see some ...

... s Western Pacific regional office, said the decision by some countries to recall milk products imported from China was "reasonable". "I think many countries decided on the recall, I think under this kind of situation when the picture is not yet clear, it a very reasonable position that countries take." 2. Now it has been revealed that the company which sparked the controversy in the first place was receiving complaints last year! Already some involved have quit ...

... road; although it was never level as it went down and up. Going down the wall was an experience too! There was a small "tobaggan" car that I rode dowm a track all the way to the bottom. At the bottom I celebrated and quenched my thirst with a beer. Then I walked through the market. One lady told me a shirt wasonly $1 and had me follow her into her tent store. Once inside ...

... gerechten waren eigenlijk best OK. De paksoi side dish gaat altijd helemaal op, en sommige beef schotels waren best lekker, maar het zal even duren voor ik zomaar alles durf te bestellen. Hier in Beijing valt het gelukkig al wel mee, maar we gaan gauw weer de stad uit dus dat wordt weer spannend! Wat betreft de toiletten, ook daar merkte ik in Shenzhen nog niet veel van. We hadden een fijn hotel, en de toiletten in openbare plekken waren vaak nog zelfs normale (=zoals ...

... hong kong hostel we stayed in!! So the story so far: * Tian'nemmen Square is huge and leads to the forbidden city which we will be visting later this week- there is soo much to do here but we don't have the time to do it all so are a little dissappointed * Silks Market- A five floor market which was very itimidating for me as the shop owners etc are hassling you to look at there stuff all the time ( i just prefer to look myself) Craig haggled for about 15 ...

... circa 2004 by China photojournalist Tom Carter, author of 'CHINA: Portrait of a People,' a definitive 600-page volume of street photography on today's China, coming winter 2007 from Hong Kong publisher Blacksmith Books. http://www.tomcarter.org http://www.blacksmithbooks.com/China_po rtrait_Q&A.htm

... to try anything to crazy, didn't wanna go and get ill on the first night now (lame excuse i know)! Anyway they sold scorpians, like i had heard, plump starfish and worst of all and i couldnt actually belive this, but seahorses on skewers! Poor things! You might just beable to make it out in the pictures i got! So we just stuck to the chicken stirfry in a wrap! We were also offered dog! On our second day we did the tourist thing and went to the forbidden ...

... old narrow streets with houses from the Ming Dynasty where local people live) which I had not been in before but they are the same as the south. But next to our hostel with a very low key restauraunt was a stunning restauraunt which I did not expect to see in the hutong. I think we stumbled on one of Beijings little gems. There were an army of waiters and waitresses and a few matrede's one of whom "Richard" spoke English and basically we where treated like ...

... of the main road intersections near my old hotel was in exactly the same state of non-progress it was in 3 years ago. Found the shopping centre I visited before. It had changed somewhat. Gone were the junk shops selling books, stationary and cheap clothes. In their stead were designer clothes outlets and an abundance of pen shops (Parker, Mont Blanc etc). No Smiths here then. Walked down the old pedestrian street and found the Beijing Bookstore and after about 3/4 hour of trying to ...

... Great Wall at Badaling

Caught the cable car up to entry point so could spend all our time walking along the top section - lucky it was a relatively clear day, so very spectacular

Back to the Jade Gallery for shopping & lunch - very entertaining as the staff tried to discretely (at first) catch a rat which found its way into the dining room.

Dinner at Jing at the Peninsula - fabulous