day 1 After dreading the 12 hour flight to Beijing from Heathrow it wasnt to bad compared to the ryan air standards that im used to. There was lot of films and programmes to choose from + free beer which i took full advantage of. finding our way around the airport was pretty straight foward as most of the signs had been translated to english, it was only when we tried to get a taxi that the language barrier became a problem. After some pointing and some manadrin words that some chinese guy had taught us on the plane we were on our way. The first observation that i made while in the taxi is that the Chinese cant drive and they make full use of their horns, it seems pedestrians, animals and all type of
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