Written quite retrospectively as we've been pretty lazy with the blog in China.... Spent a few days in Beijing and found it quite a contrast to Japan. We were surprised at just how big this city is and seemed to take quite a while to get around c/w Japan. It's quite a smoggy city and I'm not sure we ever got used to the close proximity staring! (It's not deemed rude here and at one time I was eating a bowl of noodles in a booth with a woman literally 20cm away h...