exploring beijing
May 30th 2008 Beijing is HUGE! trying to negotiate our way round was fun to begin with as our map isn't very good but got some help from a very friendly chinese man who wanted to practice his english. I had been told about the abruptness of the chinese "where are you from? what do you do? what are you doing here?" but we took it as the friendliness it was intended to be.
Found our way to tiananmen square which
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