Hi there everyone thanks to you all for your messages it's great to log on and see them. First of all sorry for the lack of photos have got loads to upload but just having a bit of a probem at this hostel everything is in chinese when i try and do it so we will get them on as soon as poss x Thursday 21st May - Today we decided to visit the Olympic Stadium (Birds Nest) after much reading about how to get there and about how difficult it would be to get the bus b...

Hi all gemma and joe here form Beijing!! Yes we made it had a fantastic night in the Sheraton hotel on Sunday before catching our flight on Monday afternoon, the flight was great free wine all the way and great chinese food. We landed on time at Beijing airport which is huge we even had to catch a train to get our backpacks it was that big! We were met by Bruce who works in the hostel we were booked into he had a big sign with our names on. Within 10 minutes o...