Well, with the first leg of our tour behind us I can defintely say we didn't go with the easy option first. Well, unless you count Paris for the weekend before we came away! Beijing was a city break like no other that we've taken. Being in communist China, life is a bit different to how we can appreciate in the west. Its quite weird in the sense that its a real mixture of the modern and the dated in a lot of ways; the culture of the people; on the one hand there is no litter and it is extremely clean - even the subway! but everyone hocks and spits everywhere imaginable. There are ancient sites like the Great Wall, Forbidden City, Tiananmen Sq and obvious signs of real poverty (i dont mean big issue
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