Wednesday 27th - day 7 Beijing First day in Beijing and we venture to bei hai park first. It's a Massive lake with boats, surrounded by a decent few km of gardens. There's a few dance groups here, it's like a big exercise class, people meet up in a public place and all dance the same routine. It's a bright day - which is unusual for china so the parks busy. After a walk right through, we end up by the forbidden city, we take the option to to up the gate house...

Tuesday 26th - day 6 Suzhou - Beijing Even with leaving a hour and half before the trains due, we end up waiting ages for a bus and when we arrive at the train station, we are knocked back from the waiting room and directed to the train platform.. To get to another station!!! Apparently suzhou North is where we should have been. There's no way in hell we are making our train now, and we can only imagine the palava when we arrive to sort another train out - if ...

Tuesday 26th - day 6 Suzhou - Beijing Even with leaving a hour and half before the trains due, we end up waiting ages for a bus and when we arrive at the train station, we are knocked back from the waiting room and directed to the train platform.. To get to another station!!! Apparently suzhou North is where we should have been. There's no way in hell we are making our train now, and we can only imagine the palava when we arrive to sort another train out - if ...

The grunter and the Spanish guy go out early and we drag ourselves out of bed to pack and head to the train station for a train to suzhou. I contemplate a tactical vomit as I'm feeling like utter crap but mange it to the train station. A local guy asks us if we need any help as we are getting our bags out the scanner (all the train and metro stops have scanners - it's an absolute pain in the arse and I had a penknife with me is not sure what they are actually s...

The grunter and the Spanish guy go out early and we drag ourselves out of bed to pack and head to the train station for a train to suzhou. I contemplate a tactical vomit as I'm feeling like utter crap but mange it to the train station. A local guy asks us if we need any help as we are getting our bags out the scanner (all the train and metro stops have scanners - it's an absolute pain in the arse and I had a penknife with me is not sure what they are actually s...