Beijing, China
Hello all
Legs aching from yesterday's climb! Were taken by a local (Chinese) guide to Tianamen Square on the metro (underground) this morning. On the square, it really comes home to you that you are in a Communist country. Red flags waving, huge painting of Chairman Mao, soldiers keeping watch and vehicles circling to make sure everyone is behaving themselves! From there, we went around the Forbidden City, so called because, until the twentieth century, it...