Beijing

Breathless in Beijing

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July 24th 2007
Well here is our blog, just a little late in starting but travelling takes some adjustment. That's our excuse and we're sticking to it! We arrived in Beijing by sleeper bus at 4am on Tuesday July 17th. The "sleeper bus" (I use the term loosely as apart from the snoring man next to me I don't think anyone actually slept) probably deserves a paragraph of its own. Although I managed to squeeze int ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more