China 2017

We arrive later at our destination station Caishikou, nearest station to Liu Li street famous for its calligraphy, stone carving and all types of supplies for the artist. My fellow traveller has this area on her wish list to acquire…

Is what the itinerary says. My fellow traveller has defined it as a route march around all parts of Beijing. We start off heading in the correct direction, feeling a lot calmer without a guide being able to see and…

Well a couple of hours really. Our tickets are delivered to our hotel by David in good time, and we change and set out for the evening. We travel by taxi, around a twenty five minute journey for under £4.…

Before I begin our recollections, a word on air quality. We wake and look out of the window to see overcast conditions caused by smog. We can see a yellow brown halo around the sun. On the AQI web site…

We wake up, get ready and breakfast early to meet our guide David at 8:30 for our trip to get Great Wall at Mutiyanu. The sky is tinted with pollution today, much more so than yesterday. We get in the…

Today on our journeys our guide was dicussing the Beijing transport system, and informed us that the city government has an intention to make subway stations available within 500 metres to the majority of Beijing citizens by 2020. He said…

Shortly after this picture was taken I was slightly cut adrift from my fellow traveller by about 50 metres, and lo and behold I was approached by a lady asking for money and discussing the provision of some services with…

Before we start just a few words about the flight. Comfortable and smooth journey with very little sleep arriving way ahead of time, but any advantage we started with quickly evaporated as the aircraft was forced to perform a lengthy…