Monday : rain on and off Shocking sleep last night, that nap yesterday evening was probably not a good idea, too much resting. Never mind we got up and went downstairs for breakfast, we had the choice of Chinese or western. We thought we would try Chinese, been wondering what they have for breakfast. The meal we got was basically chilli beans, chilli cucumber, chill Lettus, crunchy chilli something and then to mix it up rice soup and one boiled egg. The egg was...

Sunday : rain Well we had a good sleep, slept until 10:30. We did some thinking on what we were going to do today. Its Sunday so I think going to the sights might be better to do tomorrow. So today was going to be a lazy day. We eventually left the room, after Kim made a Skype call and I did some diary work. Then we went down to tell the hotel we would like to stay more nights. It took a good 20 minutes to before the person at reception could figure out what w...

Saturday : rain The movies were good, but the sleep was not. We dragged ourselves out of bed, got ready for checking out and tried to make ourselves respectable for breakfast. The hostel wouldnt let us order a chinese noodle dish for breakfast, we had to order a "Western" breakfast. Seemed a bit strange, what do the chinese people staying at the hostel have for breakfast, if they couldn't have noodles? I didn't mind we just felt like noodles thats all, seeing h...

Friday : sunny then showers We had a good sleep our room was nice and quiet the beds and pillows are back to being hard like a rock though. We had to change rooms today, so we got up and packed up then went to have breakfast. We made good use of our Vegemite again, we have given up on going out and finding a Chinese restaurant for breakfast. I don't think the Chinese do breakfast, and if they do they just have dinner meals for breaky. Also this hostel has a g...

Thursday : cloudy Woke up pretty tired today, starting to have late nights and early mornings again. I also had a bad case of the sniffles. We had a good but quick breakfast at the hostel then checked out and made our way to the airport on the metro. The overnight rain did wonders for Beijing. The pollution has basically gone, we could see so much more of the cities skyline. We got to the station around 7:30, we wanted to get there early to beat the morning...