Its my last day in Beijing today, with my bus to Datong (don worry, nobody has ever heard of it, not even Chinese people) booked for tomorrow afternoon. So what, you ask, have I done in this, the city every Westerner Ive met has raved about?? A lot less than I was supposed to do. My original plan was to spend four days here, with eight places to visit. I made it to round about three of them. Although, unlike normal, the reason for my missing stuff was entirely out of my control. Its the 60th Anniversary of the PRC (when China went all Red) on 1st October. So, Tiannemen Square, and the Forbidden City have been shut for most of the time Ive been here. So I haven been there. First day I arrived, after
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