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We are a week in to our trip and now just managing to start our Blog. It has been nonstop. From the 1.5hr Taxi journey from the airport that immediately demonstrated the size of the City and the CNY120.00 (12GBP) how cheap it is.
Our first full day. We jumped on the metro to the Summer Palace. Although the reception at the Hotel had said to take 1 line all the way in true Alan style I looked at the map and thought another station would be closer. It ended up the we had to walk 45 minutes to the Palace instead on 5 minutes, the advantage was that we started at the bottom of the gardens and were able to walk the length to the Palace which was perfect. The History, well the Palace was built by one of Chinas Dynasties and rebuild after being destroyed a few times.
In the afternoon Peter and Colleen arrived. We walked from the hotel to Tiananmen Square to a little restaurant along the side on the Forbidden City.
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Colleen this brings back fantastic memories. Thankyou.