 | Beijing Day 6
2007-07-31, Beijing, China. By: alan54to60 | | Tuesday 31st July
Today we are due to go to the Summer Palace. Last night’s thunderstorms seem to have cleared the air, I can see much further through the hotel window, and the sun is shining, a y... |
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 | Beijing and all that jazz
2006-01-31, Beijing, China. By: TheBadger | | Saturday night was New Years eve and as I had nothing else to do some of my new found friends invited me out for a little fun. This year was the first time in 13 years that fireworks have been allowed... |
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 | Beijing Day 5
2007-07-30, Beijing, China. By: alan54to60 | | Monday 30th July
It looks like being another hot day. According to the news, there have been lots of flooding in other parts of China, and according to the BBC World Weather, there are thunderstor... |
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 | Beijing Day 4
2007-07-29, Beijing, China. By: alan54to60 | | Sunday 29th July
Light streams in through a gap in the curtains of the hotel room. After a couple of yawns and a stretch I hear “J” get out of his bed to look out of the window. He declares the a... |
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 | Beijing Day 3
2007-07-28, Beijing, China. By: alan54to60 | | Saturday 28th July
Today is the day we will visit the Forbidden City. It is likely that there will be a lot of walking so we decide to take breakfast in the hotel. The restaurant is laid out well... |
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 | Beijing Day 2
2007-07-27, Beijing, China. By: alan54to60 | | Friday 27th July
The hospital can be seen from through the hotel window, so it is not too far away. We leave the hotel just before 8.30am, no breakfast, and head straight there, it will be interes... |
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 | To Beijing
2007-07-26, Beijing, China. By: alan54to60 | | Thursday 26th July
The flight to Beijing is about midday, seems like plenty of time, but being me, I do like to be at the airport in good time. We have breakfast at 7.30am and after final baggage c... |
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 | Last Day in Beijing
2007-08-05, Beijing, China. By: katalin | | My last day in Beijing – I was really sad to leave. I fell in love with the city and hope that I have another chance to visit in the near future. But for the time being, I decided to make the most of ... |
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 | Temple of Heaven, Kung Fu and Loads of Weird Food
2007-08-04, Beijing, China. By: katalin | | I admit, yesterday is hard to top, but I tried anyway. In the morning, we went to the Temple of Heaven, the round building you always see on Postcards. Cool thing is that we got there pretty much befo... |
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 | Forbidden City, Lama Temple and Beijing Duck
2007-08-03, Beijing, China. By: katalin | | Today ranks pretty high in the list of the Top Ten Days in My Life, and it certainly is one of the best three days this year. It was amazing! We got up really early today, as our plan was to be at the... |
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 | Summer Palace and Beijing Night Show
2007-08-01, Beijing, China. By: katalin | | When I first arrived in Beijing, I was more than slightly disoriented. Beijing was overwhelming – the streets are a lot wider than in Shanghai and I have the impression that the traffic is worse, too.... |
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 | Beijing itself!
2007-08-05, Beijing, China. By: valminx | | Phew! Made it through the Chinese border controls with ease - we started to get a little smug about how easy it had all been untill we stepped outside beijing west station and seen the bodies litterin... |
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| 24 hours on a train!
2007-08-03, Beijing, China. By: valminx | | Well, we finally left Hong kong and boarded a soft sleeper train to beijing - around 24 hours in a cramped room with our luggage and only eachother for inteligent conversation (*grins*). Have to admit... |
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 | My Last Day
2007-08-06, Beijing, China. By: shell | | On January 25th I found myself sitting anxiously outside the departure gate in London Heathrow airport, nervoulsy wandering what was in store for me when I got off the plane at the other side. "Would ... |
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 | Hong Kong and Beijing!!!!!!!! C u Soon!!!!!!
2007-07-18, Beijing, China. By: jem | | Friday 29th June
Had some time to kill b4 we left and decided to go for another Aromatherapy Oil Massage.Well relaxing... although she massaged my boobs a bit... which was odd!! Maybe she fancies me?... |
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 | China update
2007-05-21, Beijing, China. By: eastasia | | The two weeks in China are over - time to look back!
We stayed in a youth hostel near the famous Tianmen Square (the biggest square in the world) in Beijing. After a few days with "interesting" roo... |
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 | Insanity is the norm in Beijing
2007-04-25, Beijing, China. By: francesk | | Beijing is utter madness!
My first two hours in Beijing (mind you this was in the wee hours of the morning) were racing around in a cab that had no seatbelts, car rules DO NOT apply (don't think fo... |
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 | Entering the peoples republic
2007-04-01, Beijing, China. By: cmciver | | We arrived in Beijing late on the 31st of March and just had time to quickly explore the area around our hotel and grab some food before going to bed. This included being introduced to accepted Chines... |
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 | Beijing...
2000-01-01, Beijing, China. By: m3ng89 | | ...is my native land :) I was born there but I only lived there until I was four. I visit Beijing a few times a year. It's changing so fast, so go now before the Forbidden City is replaced with anothe... |
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| Dandelion Kindergarden
2007-02-13, Beijing, China. By: shell | | Hello Again!
Well we've all just been given our placement lists and you should all become very familiar with the title of this entry as it is where I will be writing from for 4 months.
Its in an... |
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| Mum and Dad, you would be so proud of me
2007-02-13, Beijing, China. By: shell | | As a celebration for the end of teaching practice, our tutor Andy, took us to this amazing Duck resturant. Yes i ate Duck but thats not the bit that will impress you(it was really nice though) I am co... |
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