Blogs from Beijing, China, Asia - page 459

Rain puddles on ancient stones where emperors trod. Curling dragons’ talons, silk wings and sparrows make M twirl and fly. So much space, and after the rain we suddenly see the sky! ... read more

This entry will be here soon... Think of SUN, HEAT, POLLUTION, STICKINESS, and everytihng involved with a hot day. Well have you thought of it... Because its exactly like that... I feel so gross everyday... And I have a cough that's not going away!... read more

Dair: We've been in Beijing for going on five days now, and I know this sounds cliched, but it seems like an absolute lifetime has passed since we left Aberdeen. It has been an unsettling past few days, mainly because of every traveller's (or any airline passenger's, for that matter) worst nightmare - lost luggage. We arrived pretty much on time in Beijing after an extremely comfortable flight, but all good feeling toward Qatar Airways quickly evaporated with each bagless rotation of the carousel. To make matters worse, it wasn't a mutual seen of desperation... my bag arrived, only Alison's failed to make it out of Doha. Nerves hanging by a thread, we summoned up the energy to go through the necessary reporting procedures and board a bus into central Beijing. It was horribly overcast, and ... read more

A case study in how to get yourself out of a mess you should have never gotten yourself into in the first place: My dad asked me to get an mp3 player for him if I found a good deal while in China. Yesterday, while at the Silk Market in Beijing (which sells pretty much anything, not just silk), I decided to do even better and bought an mp4 player. I have sharp bargaining skills. Most of them involve looking confounded and undecided, things that come quite naturally to me, until the salesperson is so frustrated he will go down to any price, just to put me out of my misery. From an 850Y starting price I bargained the sales lady down to a price of 400Y. This seemed like a steal. The player was purported ... read more

Hi all. At the moment we're in Hong Kong and its great to be back here. We've decided that we think it's just like London, but more sparkly and exciting - and everything is open later. However we're not really supposed to be writing about HK in this blog - this is meant to be about our final days in Beijing. The issue with this is that we're now away from Beijing, and in our last days of the trip to SEA, so we are suffering slightly from Blog Lag - we're just so keen to get home for our lovely visit! Beijing, on the whole, for us, turned out to be just OK. We had an interesting enough time, and enjoyed the activities we undertook, however we were hogged with that stupid cold, and the ... read more