Sunday : sunny Today was going to be a rest day. Nothing planned as yet except food, beer and reading. We had a good sleep, I was surprised it wasn't that noisy last night. We got up and went for a walk down the road. We went a little bit further this time with our walk. We stopped at a restaurant which had a sign out the front, advertising coffee. There was no coffee, we ordered dumplings and more roast duck. Unfortunately the meal wasn't very good at all, t...

Saturday : sunny We got up at 6:30 this morning, felt very tired. We went downstairs for some coffee and breakfast. Then went back up to our room and finished packing up. At Checkout the lady must of woken up on the wrong side of her bed she was quite rude, very close to telling to pull her head in. It was confusing too, ended up with half a Dozen receipts with large numbers on them. Thankfully the bus boy was very nice and we left the hotel on a good note. The...

Friday : sunny We just got another good breakfast in before the buffet closed. Then we hit the pavement around 11am to get some kilometers under our belt. Very different looking sky today compared to yesterday, a lot more smog unfortunately. We went to a train ticket office conveniently next to the hotel and bought fast train tickets to Beijing for tomorrow. Easy buy too the lady spoke English well, glad we were able to get them today rather than at the station...

Thursday : sunny Lucky we set an alarm to get us up this morning, other wise we would of missed breakfast on Kim's Birthday What a breakfast too, they had everything. It was so good to have cereal and fruit. The breakfast room was very nice, it used to be a ball room. It has overhead balconies like in an opera theatre. Big domed ceiling with ledlight sections to let natural light in. Just what Kim needed for a birthday breakfast, she was happy. After stuffing o...

Wednesday : sunny It was a bit quieter this morning, still a lot of commotion around 5:30-6am, but there were no dogs barking and music. So were able to fall back asleep and wake up we wanted to. We left the house around 9am and made our way up to the cafe where we had dinner the previous night. Except I had to go back down, we forgot to pack a phone to tell us the time. Had to keep time today so we didn't miss our transfer to the airport. They put on a good b...