Beijing
October 11th 2009 After our long 10 hour flight I met Laura and Joe (two others from my tour!) at baggage reclaim and we made our way to the taxi rank. Driving in to Beijing is pretty impressive- the road is about 5 lanes wide, dead straight, newly resurfaced and there are sky scrapers and trees lining the sides. I wonder whether the city looked half as smart as this before they had the olympics here in 2008. After
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