17th November 2005 Early start from Beijing to HK (flight at 0750) Usual stuff with airports at that time of the morning, shops just opening up and procedures are pretty slow. still we had our supposed chocolate buns from the local bakery in Beijing to look forward to. Unfortunately this chocolate looking substance also seemed to be chestnut so was slightly dissapointed. One thing we have been impreseed with has been Cathay Pacific. More specificall...

Dear all After many months of planning the trip is finally underway. Thought we'd go for a bit of a major culture shock by going to Beijing first of all and yes it was a little bit of a shocker but we coped pretty well. Arrived on Sunday 13th and, determind not to go the easy route, we caught the bus to the main train station in Beijing from the airport and walked to our hotel from there. First impressions didn't dissapoint with hundreds of new high...