Our fir1st day in Beijing we woke up quite early but didnt have to meet everyone till 6pm, so we had around 9 hours to kill with no idea where we were or where to go. we made the brave desision to venture out of the hotel to try find a bank. Leaving the hotel and seeing what the street was like in the day time wasnt any where near as bad as we expected, it still looked like a horrible place and smelt like rotting food and pig s**t but day time took the edge o...

Today we was up and out by 7 to get breakfast before we had to go to the airport. this time we didnt have the luxary of the lexus just a standard coach not impressed ha. we got dropped off at some sort of secret check in area where there was no one else about just a few people so that was easy, then we had a million miles to walk for security check before getting on a train to our terminal (they have a private subway inthe aiport). we spent most of our time...

Our second day in Dubai wasnt much of a better start. We had a trip booked for 9 in the morning but both decided to ignore our alarm and woke up 10 minutes before the trip was about to start. We made it down to the lobby just in time to find a big posh 4x4 and a chauffour waiting for us. The trip started by driving to the Dubai harbour to see some rich Arabs yotch's floating around infront of the city but not much else, we then moved on to the Dubai museum ...

So lets start with the plane journey...7 hours on a bumpy night flight to Dubai was jam packed with fun as you can imagine. We pretty much hit turbulance as soon as we got into the air which was perfect. We decided to have half a diazpiam each to take the edge off a bit. Evetually it did calm down but it doesnt put you at ease when the pilot requests the cabin crew to their seats also.Anway,it got better but Jonnys face was white through out the entire fli...