Day 4 Great Wall of China! we eventually made it to one of the 8th wonders of the world! Heading off at the crack of dawn and in hair-raising Beijing traffic and an excuse for a minibus that kept on breaking down every 5 minutes its a wonder we made it at all! What a climb, we made it past 2 and a half towers and then just sat on the wall for about an hour taking in the views and the wall for as far as the eye could see!! pretty cool I must say! In the evening ...

Beijing Day 2 Today was a very special day for one particular reason... Sven PROPOSED!!! I still can't stop smiling hee hee. We had started the day off with walking through Tianamen Square and then onto the Forbidden City, then ancient palaces of China's many Emperors. Such a HUGE complex it can take a few days if you want to take in every detail! Very impressive with all the palaces and the old Emperors thrones etc! Anyway after 4 hours walking around in subz...

Beijing Day one! We have arrived in China!! It is now 2am local time and ding ding ding we are wide awake!! SOoo I decided why not write our first blog! After a 9 hour flight from London to Beijing and no sleep for either of us, we landed in Beijing and got a taxi to our hostel in the back alleys of Beijing known as the 'Hutongs' which are the old markets. Rather interesting taxi ride as the taxi navigated up this very small alley and dropped us outside a ra...