So a 4.30am start took us to Hong Kong airport for our flight to Beijing. Yes, the tour will be in Chinese. Mandarin to be precise, not that it makes any difference to me. Although in my defence I can conjure up some of the most important phrases in the Mandarin language: (I am spelling the following phonetically as I have no idea how to spell them...good start Natalie, good start...) "Shey shey" - thank you; "Ni hao" - hello; and the piece-de...