Ni Hao Well today was the day, and after a good night's sleep it was off to the hairdressers for my first haircut since August in Melbourne. Over the last few days we had carefully selected the hairdresser by looking how busy they have been and were hoping we had made the right choice!!! A simple scissor gesture with my fingers got the desired effect and Mel and I were plonked into a chair each, within no time we had someone lathering our hair up while we sat i...

Ni Hao I don't know wheher we had a lie in till 10.30 this morning because it was Sunday or the fact that we didn't go to bed till 2am the night before.I was going to get a haircut (1st in 6 months!!) but decided to do it tomorrow!!! Had a great brunch at Grandma's Kitchen then took the subway to the Temple of Heaven.Although the subway is a great way to get around you seem to spend half your time underground,like a mole!!!! Once we surfaced we entered through...

Ni Hao Last Night we had a lovely social evening and sat down for our hotpot meal with the hostel staff and some other travellers,the meal was amazing and really tasty and we were still nibbling away at the food 2 1/2 hours later!!!!! All the food cooks really quickly in the broth at the table and it is the only meal I have eaten in China where you don't get rice!!!! Today we decided to have a day off from sightseeing and thought that we might try and blend in...

Ni Hao Today has been the warmest so far while in China and we spent the day at the Imperial Palace or it's more common name the Forbidden City.It was in use for 5 centuries and saw 24 different emperors ruling from the Ming and Qing dynasties,the youngest being 3 years old who ruled for 61 years!!! It sits smack bang in the middle of Beijing next to Tian'namen Square and is huge with over 800 buildings.We opted for an audio guide which was really cool as you w...

Ni Hao For all you serious blog readers out there,today marks our 200th blog post and I can't think of a better subject to be writing about. One of the main reasons we came to China (apart from pandas) was the reason we had to get out of bed at 5.45am,The Great Wall of China.This structure in parts is more than 2600 years old and is one of the 7 wonders of the world without a doubt. Our journey took us 110km out of Beijing to visit a section of the wall less p...