Hi All, Just a short update on my holidays - having a great time, Beijing is a famtastic city, and it feels the safest city I have every been to, people are so friendly and helpful, language no problem at all. This would be a great place to visit - so fascinating without the olympics being on Travel is cheap 10 mile tube ride 50p for all 3 of us, taxi same distance £2 - We have been to the zoo and seen the Panda's - they were great - lots of fun and ...

hi Anna - we are miswsing you - wished you had come along it has been great China has been excellent - people fantastic, city clean, very friendly very safe, easy to get around very cheap travel - tube 50p for all three of us to anywhere on system No smog, clean air Events - all 1st class we have seen british medals of all colours, been with great supporters, seen top class eathletics, world and olympic records and some good gb performances. Visited the zoo -...

Day 2 - super day at T Square - Owen and Liam were asked for there photos with chinese, very few westerners, excellent place - Then onto the Forbibben City, which was immense - much bigger than we imagined, followed by excellent views on top tower in park of F City - truly immense, views of great wall from top of tower, view was very clear nice sunny day, no smog, easy to breathe and humidity dropped. Next onto an excellent meal - followed by a fantastic night...

Day 1 Excellent flight from Munich 7.5hrs arrived 45 mins ahead of schedule, everything 1st class - airport/plane/food Taxi at airport picked us up OK and checked into our hotel by 12.30 - very efficient went for a subway trip into centre of city, looked around the shops - rained this afternoon, had a chinese meal - i had green tea and egg fried rice, boys had spicy beef and lamb everything great - people really friendly and everything geared up for us langu...