Hello All Not been in touch for a while as have done a lot of travelling by train to cover vast distances in China. So, Beijing, cultured out completely. So much to be seen and so much walking to do. We were averaging about 2 -3hours everyday(or so it seemed)The culture was so different to what we expected...even though they had the Olympics there there is still hardly any English spoken and we found it very difficult to negotiate our way around. The most frustrating thing was trying to buy train tickets - unless you were in the actual town you could not buy your ticket ahead. When you did get to the town there were invariably no tickets for 2-3 days....very frustrating! Anyway, as already said we were in Beijing for new year...unlike our new
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