19/10/2009 Day 14 - Beijing: Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven Today was a busy and exciting day, so much to tell you. It was the first day of our 'On the Go' tour, we were picked up at the hotel at 9am - our tour guide's name was Michelle, she was about the same age as Mum. Our first stop was Tiananmen Square. The best way to describe it is that it's like Federation square in Melbourne just bigger, a lot bigger. It can hold 1 million people f...

16/10/09 to 18/10/09 Day 11 to Day 13 - Slow boat to China We left Japan aboard the Yanjing , Mum and Dad splashed out and got us special first class cabins!! Boy am I glad they did because I would have hated to see the standard of a normal cabin!!! There was little to do on the boat so we played cards, DS, watched movies on the eeepc (Dad's mini laptop) and slept. The food wasn't very nice so we mainly just ate rice. When we arrived in Tianjin Port it took abo...