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Hellooooooo! We're here!!!!Been quite an adventure already! :S Been up for about twenty three hours now and its only 3pm here in Beijing. Flight was LONG!!! Even though we took sleeping tablets we didn't get much sleep as a man kept snorting on the seat next to us! Managed to get through the temperature scanners at the airport ok - although EVERYONE is wearing masks!!! Got on a local bus for about an hour to the centre of Beijing and made it to the CRAZY train station.
There's NO English translation at the station so we were completely stumped and ended up using our womanly charms (:D) to sweet-talk the receptionist at the nearest hotel (Mariott) to help us!!! I think he could see by our tired eyes and the size of vicki's bag that we needed helping out! Anyway, he spent about an hour writing lots of Chinese down and ringing people and VOILA he's got us two tickets to shanghai in a sleeping carriage on saturday! :)
We've booked into a little hotel (who have just bought us a compluter up!) in the back streets for two nights and are planning to see the great wall and the forbidden city tomorrow - if we can fight of the taxi drivers! :P
First impressions of Beijing - mental!
lou xxx
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