Hi Folks, It's our last day in Beijing and we'll both be sad to leave! We've been uber busy since the last entry - literally non stop... On Wednesday we had a walk through Tianamen Square to get to the Forbidden City - which was really hot and busy! We picked up an English speaking Chinese man (tour guide of some shifty variety) called "Bob", which turned out to be a wise move as we wouldn't have had a clue without hiim! Forbidden City was huge and ve...

HI All, After a rather long flight and not much sleep, we arrived in Beijing about mid-day yesterday. We had a crazy taxi journey from the airport- the driving here is a little different (!!), weaving in and out of 8 lanes of traffic! The hostel is pleasant, it's clean and air conditioned which is good because it's 33c outside! We're staying within a stones throw from Tianamen square and the forbidden city so we went for a wander and saw the changing of the g...