After an emotional goodbye, and a fairly uneventful flight I arrived in smoggy Beijing. The hotel organised for us was grim – ceratinly no White Swan! – so after one night I checked out and found somewhere else in time for Lindsey to arrive. Apart from the hotel smelling odd, having no internet and no heating - I sure missed that invisible person who turns your bed down and leaves chocolate by your bedside.
Beijing is gripped in Olympic fever, and I have already been sucked into the consumerist hype – you’d be amazed what you can get depicting the pokemon-esque ‘friendlies’ – they are even carved in jade and etched on chopsticks. The place looks a lot different since my last visit in April, and the underpasses are strangely empty of beggars and hawkers. Really not sure how it will adapt to the influx of visitors, the traffic is terrible right now and getting worse.
Oh, and for Paige and Abbie – you get stared at just as much here and I have had my photo taken with someones baby!
im bored, someone help (by the way amanda im not bored coz of what you wrote)