Today I met with Marie for the last time, managing to finally get the corrent bus to her apartment at the correct time tocomplete the final beijing sightseeing challenge that is the Forbidden City. Which by the way, really is the size of a small city. It took 6 hours to get round, with much of it in some disrepair and limited English captions beside artifacts. The most amazing sights were the amazingly intricate tapestries, reading about the strange habits and cu...