Beijing's Olympians and my Olympic effort up Mutianyu's great wall !!
October 7th 2012 Day 26 (Mon 1stOct)
Another night train took me from Shanghai to Beijing although this one far more successful. A soft sleeper and not a hard sleeper meant a bigger bed and more space, 4 in a room not 6 and the luxury of a door. It was spot on. On arriving in Beijing the girl on the opposite side to my bed decided to let on she spoke English, shame she didn’t do it 11 hours earlier
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