First Full Day in Beijing

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June 20th 2011

Published: June 21st 2011

6/20, Monday Breakfast in the hotel—wide variety of dishes, tea already brewed in a big pot. Eventually, even the last two students got up. Bought big bottles of water in the hotel shop and changed some large yuan bills for smaller ones. Well, we met at 11 and headed out. First stop was just down the road from the hotel: the Temple of Heaven, an enormous park and altar to Heaven. Each winte... Read Full Entry

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MikeAndSue

MikeandSue

This started for us to blog about India in 2008 and has been used several times since. Sue went to China in 2011 and helped the girls move around the Southeast in 2012. We'll keep using it to capture pictures and travels! Then: Ireland and the Isle of Man, summer 2017, bicycling in NYC with Road Scholars in Sept 2018, the Panama Canal, again with Road Scholars, March 2019! Then: Since we survived Covid-19 and Mike’s lymphoma, and Sue retired, we returned to Ireland and the Isle of Man in April/May 2023! For our 50th New Year's Eve together, we went to another Road Scholars program, New ... full info

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back entrance

marble center to the stairwell

Typical Toilet

We (women) had a 'clean, Western, toilet paper' code going--whoever sacrificed themselves and tried the ladies' room first gave a judgement to the others.

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Imperial Garden

these next pics are of the Imperial Garden, the last stop in the Forbidden City. by this point, we were so hot, sweaty, tired, swollen (feet, anyway) that the cool shade was perfect.