Greetings from Shanghai! Sorry its been so long since our last post, but we managed to pack a lot into our time in Beijing which left too little time for adequate blogging. : ) To recap our time briefly - we saw the sunrise at Tiananmen Square (the flag raising ceremony was epic, the sun was very smog obscured), sampled food at the street market but avoided scorpian like the plague (it was still wriggling), braved the Silk Market to earn some bargains (the ha...

Greetings from China! We have finally arrived in Beijing, rocked up at 7.30am off the best train ever (it provided flip flops!) and after dumplings for breakfast jumped on a bus off to the Forbidden City. First we went to Jingshan Park which had amazing views across the Forbidden City from its highest pavillion. Then we headed down, dodging people trying to flog us rickshaw rides, and entered the Forbidden City. It was absolutely stunning, we now wish to live t...