Day 6 - Sunday 31st This was our last full day in Beijing as we had booked to go to the Great Wall on Monday. We decided to take it easy and go to Beihai park (not sure of the spelling). The park is located in the centre of Beijing and it was bustling with people when we got there. The park isn't really touristy, instead full of normal people just enjoying a stroll in the park or meeting up with some friends on a Sunday afternoon. We chilled out for a couple of ...

Day 3/4/5 Sorry for not updating the blog for a while. We have been unable to logon to this site. Anyway. On day 3, it was all about the Forbidden City.By this time, we had started to learn about actually looking at the map scale because what only seems like an inch on map is actually 3kms and we'd walked about 20km's on each of the previous days. So we got to the Forbidden City and wow, this really is a city. It's crazy to think that this was really two family...

Day 3/4/5 Sorry for not updating the blog for a while. We have been unable to logon to this site. Anyway. On day 3, it was all about the Forbidden City. By this time, we had started to learn about actually looking at the map scale because what only seems like an inch on map is actually 3kms and we'd walked about 20km's on each of the previous days. So we got to the Forbidden City and wow, this really is a city. It's crazy to think that this was really two ...

Day 2 - Beijing After being unable to go back to sleep after I woke up in the night, I started thinking about the next ten months and started wondering how I was going to cope with everything etc. In the end I woke up Martin and we were both awake until past three o'clock. So when the alarm went off at 8.30 AM there was no way we were getting up. So in the end we snoozed the alarm (well turned it off) and woke up at 12. So the day we had planned went out of the...

Day 1 - Beijing China After a relatively easy flight, though with just 3 hours sleep (Marie wanted to stay up and party), we arrived safely in our first destination, Beijing. We successfully found our hostel, down some back alley off a market and was shown to our room, which is actually ok, though it is probably more about Marie and I realising that this is ok (and I reckon we'll look back and see this as a good one after some other countries!!) but it will pro...