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been a busyy busy 3 days.. seemed to have crammed in every temple/city/wall/old thing areas in a mega short space, hard goin but amazing.
on weds we visited the forbidden city, amazing chinese architecture and absolutly massive considering it was just for one family, this then led on down to tain an man square so we had a bit of a wander around there for abit, again awesomely big (continuing theme) but is just a square at the end of the day.. stopped off and had some lunch as the mid day sun was startin to hammer down abit. we then caught a taxi to the temple of heaven witch again was.. err.. big, the gardens were pretty cool too and featured an outside gym that was cleaverly disguised as a play park. Then every taxi outside the temple decided that they didnt like the look of us and it took a good 20 mins to walk around and get a taxi, not so awesome after walkin around for a good 6 hours. tired we retreated to our favourite noddle house and got some beers in the main high street.
thursday we managed to get up for breakfast and had some actually english breakfast! we then drove out to the great wall, our fackin massive taxi driver managing to crash into the car in front at a toll gate.. walked along the wall, feeling slightly touristy in our new 'Great wall hats' and camera in hand. We then visited the ming temples saw some stone animals and then to the huge olyimpic stadium, which was about 1000 times bigger than you think it is. after this we were taken out for a meal by abby, nicole and luka on the main bar street. after this they took us to a unbelievable club, like the best club i have ever been to.. and we had everything paid for by our escorting team as "our treat", personal table and all.. awesome night out whitch ended up with us getting our dedicated driver (luka) absolutly smashed. taxi home about 4.30am.
today we have visited the summer palace witch was beautiful, but feeling slightly worst for wear. came back to the hotel and met luka who took us to silk street. I managed to ush a girl down from 120yen to 30 yen for a very fetching president mao watch that broke after i took about 5 steps away from the shop.. luke got some diamond studed kanye west style sunglasses after some considerable ushing. luke has bet me 20 pounds that i cant wear said watch for the duration of the trip, i intend on proving him wrong. just off out to see transformers 2 and then fly out to xi'an tomorro.
hope glasto isnt too wet..
matt and luke
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