Getting aquainted with bustling Beijing

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October 25th 2012

Published: October 26th 2012

It was always going to be hard to follow up on such an amazing day at The Great Wall, but we had heard so much about the Forbidden City in Beijing we had to visit it and see for ourselves what all the fuss was about. With blue skies and sunshine once again, we walked there via Tian'amen Square, which for such an open space has quite a serious mood and Soviet influences were still clearly prese... Read Full Entry

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Victoria and Scott

TheJetsetters

Victoria & Scott are off... September 2010...We work hard and play hard and love our holidays! So much so that six a year just wasn't enough so we left our jobs, friends, family and home behind and took off for nearly 5 months to travel around the world! We visited: South America- Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina and Chile (September-Mid Oct) New Zealand- the North & South island in a camper van (Mid Oct-early Nov) Australia- the East coast from Melbourne-Cairns (Nov) South East Asia- Singapore, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia (December & January) We blogg... full info

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27th October 2012

rosy59
Rosemary

Am enjoying reading your blogs, I'm teaching in Jinan Shandong Province and will be going to Beijing next weekend and visiting the wall of course, your comments have been helpful, thanks

27th October 2012

TheJetsetters
Victoria and Scott

Glad our blogs are helping - Enjoy Beijing

31st October 2012

kiwi chick
Melanie Russell

On the subject of the Chinese...
Having just returned from 3 weeks in China, I enjoyed this blog, especially loved the 8 or so paragraphs following "On the subject of the Chinese...". Everything was spot on and helped me feel a little less guilty for finding it all a bit exhausting sometimes! Hope you enjoy the rest of your time there.

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