Alreyt! Got a bit more time to write this one and now we can see what we are actually writing - the computers here are fast. Honest. We've moved onto another hostel in Beijing for 2 nights, we really liked the first one but it was booked up and Pickles isn't one for staying in a dorm room. It was in an old hutong (narrow alley way with old Chinese buildings) and the street was lined with bars, cafe's and restaurants. The new one is a bit more basic but we're nea...

Hello all, Ni hao from Beijing. We arrived safely after a lovely flight with the 'hospitable' German's at Lufthansa, we even had a female attendant called B. Becker. Our hostel is nice and weather has been really hot so far. We've done a few of the tourist sights such as Tiananmen Square and the Temple of Heaven park, with the Great Wall and Forbidden City to come. We tried to get to the Olympic site but the sneaky so and so's wouldn't let us in without a ticket...