Lesson 5: When paying to enter tourist sights, ensure that renovation is not ongoing
November 22nd 2007 After our push and shove experience on the metro in Shanghai where Donna had somehow lost her flip flop, we were a little traumatised. A little more prepared this time we used the 'elbow, blocking with rucksacks and a Donna donkey kick' manoeuvre to good effect, working in unison to get where we wanted (i.e on the train to Beijing)...we surprised even some of the Chinese with our skills. On board
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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more 
