Hi Everyone Its so nice to hear from everyone. Sorry i havent updated for a few days but we have been out of town to the great wall but no internet access. Let me start with sunday! On sunday we went to the summer palace, which you may have seen some of the pictures already up. This was amazing, we both really enjoyed it. We were suprised how big the palace was and i was so scared because we walked over a frozen lake! (Sorry mum!) Lee has now decided that he ...

Hello to all I thought id give this blogging a go..... those who have not guessed its lee. Since our last blog we have been very busy, Saturday we ventured into the forbidden city, it was very cold as you can probably gather from the pics. We were shown around the buildings by a local guide who was very good but was desperately trying to sell us alot more trips including making our own chinese dumplings...... to which me and kirst both declined. After the city...

Hi today has been our first real look around the city. We started the day in a bit of a bad way! We were so jet lagged that we over slept and missed out check out. We were woken at 12pm with the maid knocking on the doortellin us to get out! We were totally knackered. So when we did eventually get up we decided to go out and brave the city of Beijing. Armed with a map and a phrasebook we decided that we would head of tiannamien square. As its just a 25mins walk...

Hi Everyone! We have arrived in Beijing! The temperature outside is a very cold -8c and there is a large supply of snow all around! The flight over here was a good result as when we boarded at the gate we were told that we had been given an upgrade to club world. With lots of extra leg room, a tv each, personal games and a satalite phone (which was very expensive) what more could you ask of a 10 hour flight?!? Anyway enough about the flight. We landed at 8am lo...