Confused again

Day 2 - Beijing

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June 14th 2008
My weather fears have been realised! It's a high of 28C in Beijing today but raining all day just about. Luckily we were in T-shirt and shorts so were easily identifiable as tourists. My daughter got rather concerned at one stage as she seemed to be attracting a lot of attention from the locals. All that effort to look great and then complaining about getting too much attention; I don't know! Ther ... read more

Asia » China » Beijing

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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