So Beijing, the city associated with some big wall, renowned for its duck and celebrated for successfully hosting the Olympics. Contrary to my previous post our first contact with Beijing life was in a store fully loaded with our backpacks and thirsty. It seemed expensive at the time but we thought nothing of it till we purchased the same items later elsewhere. We had experience alien prices and been taken full advantage off; we were new to the town/country and didn’t know the going rate and it seemed she could tell, from here we have learnt our lesson. img=http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4014/5080751971_7e94d81df5_m.jpg left Our hostel was situated next to a park with stone tables and chairs for people to play cards or Chinese chess on and several ping pong tables set up always in use. We stopped and watched
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