The Great Wall of China II

Vegemite meets the Great Wall

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March 2nd 2007
Mel here. Things are looking up. Vegemite has been my saviour and I'm feeling a little better after the duck episode....of which we shall never speak again. Okay? The best thing to happen in the past 24 hours is that my sister Shanny has arrived in fair Beijing. We haven't seen her since our wedding, but she's still as lovely as ever (awwww). She'll see very little of the city, as we'll be sq ... 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