After leaving the Mutianyu restaurant, we drove to a traditional Tea House in Beijing. We then enjoyed different types of tea made for us by a professional tea girl. We tried Oolan tea with Gensing, Jasmine tea, Black tea, Lychee and Rose tea. They all tasted wonderful and it was clear from the whole setup that this is a very serious business for the Chinese. Interestingly, the tea house was also a government run institution and at the end of the tea ceremony, i...

We landed at 9.30am local time on the dot! We both said it was one of the smoothest landings we've ever had. Had a good chat with the purser on the flight, a guy called Tim who's been working the Asia flights for many years. He gave us some good advice about haggling in the markets & he also recommended visiting the Silk Market, although he said that the Pearl and Russian Markets are also good. He also recommended a local run restaurant called 'The Red Lant...

17.15 UK time - Bye bye Blighty! See you in 3 weeks time....:-) 19.30 UK/2.30 am local time - we've had a really good flight so far and we just watched Simon Peggs new movie 'Paul'. Well worth it, lots of giggles, got told off by karron 3 times for laughing to loud :-) 20.30 UK/3.30 local time - I noticed when we were getting on to the plane that there were quite a number of people in 'Great Britain' tracksuits. Now heres a coincidence - with 2011 having being...

Welcome to Terminal 5!

11am on the dot - 1/2 hour behind expected, (nought new there then) and the doors locked and we're about to get in the car. Giggly, excited and squinting in to the camera as the sun shines down on us and we're on our way - woo hoo!!