Ok so the title is for anybody over my (Marcs) age ......... Prizes may be given to any who gives me the next line. Well we have been here for a week now and we are enjoying ourselves , the weather has been consistantly hot and it has made sight seeing a bit uncomfortable after about 10:30am but so saying we have seen.....Tianenman Square, you have to see the huge numbers of people there from 6:00am until 10:00pm ether queing for Mao Zedong Mausoleum or just getting there photo taken with strange Europeans The Fobidden City which is undergoing major "beautifying [View Full Entry]

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Ok so here we are at 33000 feet and we are well and truly at the start of our adventure,in 9 hours we shall be landing in Beijing After saying our goodbyes to our families we are out to prove that us oldies are able to cut a rug just as well as "them young'uns" I am not to sure how I feel at the moment it is like a sort of limbo, I don't think that my emotions will catch up with my body until we have been in China for a few days (they were booked on a later [View Full Entry]

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For those of you who don't already know.... Having been there for six years, I haved waved good bye to work! I am now officially a "Lady of Leisure" and will continue to be until we depart on June 30th. At which time my title will change to "Intrepid Explorer". You maybe asking "why is she writing in the travel blog, when she is not yet travelling"? My excuse (and I'm sticking to it), is that this three months is an intrinsic part of the whole trip for me and I am going to use the time to visit places and [View Full Entry]

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We are only just starting to prepare. [View Full Entry]

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