We've now spent nearly two weeks in Beijing. Probably easiest to go through day by day (if I can remember!). 8th August Watched the opening ceremony this evening on a TV in our hostel. We had tried to go to one of the big screen that had been advertised as showing the ceremony, but when we got there it was switched off. There were a lot of very upset Chinese people there who had travelled a long way to get there and now wouldn't have time to get back to watch it on TV. Fortunately it was only half an our back to our hostel so we didn't miss too much. The ceremony itself was amazing, but I've read theough the BBC website that some of the fireworks were not live and the little singing girl
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