Lizzie and I on our flight from Finland to Beijing

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Claire: 'Ah there is a Seven Eleven over there'. Lizzie: 'Wow you've learnt to read Chinese fast!'. Claire: 'No Liz, the sign is in English'.

August 6th 2011
After a 24 hour journey door to door we have arrived for our first day in China. The journey consisted of two planes, a pitstop in Finland (where we bumped into Adrian Charles, how random) and an argument on arrival with the hostel we are staying in, of which I will talk about later. It wasn't quiet the same as flying into Indonesia or Viet Nam, the sky was bleak and looked like wet concrete f ... read more

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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

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