We're now nearly 2 weeks into our trip! We havnt really had time to update the blog! After our tour with Cherry, the next day we decided we'd tackle the Beijing subway and head to the Olympic Stadium and the Summer Palce. Our tour guide from the day before had dropped a chinese sim card of for us at the hotel that morning as she had another tour leaving from our hotel which was nice of her! My blackberry is locked so we couldnt use it in mine, and when we trie...

Hello everyone!! After a long long journey and a stop over in Abu Dhabi we arrived safe and sound in Beijing yesterday morning. We arrived around 9oclock it was gorgeous and sunny! I think we were expecting it to be mayhem when we got to the airport but it was so quiet! The airport was huge and really really modern! Once we had collected our bags we headed to the exit and we were expecting to see our transfer rep to take us to our hotel, but no one was standin...