Only in Beijing
October 4th 2013 I was adopted today by two Danish girls. I met one of them yesterday, and over breakfast this morning we discussed going to see the Forbidden City.
We set off at just past eight, hoping that the crowds would not be as huge as they had been in the Danes' experience the day before on their ill-fated earlier attempt. The City itself only opens at half eight, and yet by the time we'd walked
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