Day 2 in Beijing. Today is the day we meet our tour guide and fellow travellers. Had a terrible nights sleep still trying to get used to the time change. The smog was even worse today and the temp has dropped but still ok to wear a t-shirt & jeans. We decided to go to the Summer Balace so we got the subway which is 2yuan 20p and a taxi, the taxi journey was about 20mins and only cost 30yuan which is about £3 BARGAIN! The subway is brilliant apart from peo...

We touched down in a very smoggy Beijing at 10.20am local time. We were over an hour late due to Russia deciding to close their airspace...we had to circle over Russia for an hour! Didn't matter too much, I just laughed my way through Cyrus and Grown-ups - good films. The plane food was pretty good too. We had chicken curry, but then Therese got oil all on her pants, then spilt handwash on her pants, then the guy next to her spilt brandy everywhere! Caught the A...