Firstly, it's a miracle I navigated myself into this page cause this PC is all in Chinese!!! Beijing is amazing! The people are ALL soooooooo nice and patient, it is unreal. Nobody speaks English really, and most of the signs (if not all) are only in Chinese, so it's tough getting around; it takes about 5 x longer. However, everybody is happy to help, even if they do not understand you. Not sure my bad Chinese pronunciation helps but....
We are getting fabulous weather - 18 degrees C - in the daytime and lots of sunshine. Today we saw the Forbidden City: a city indeed!! No wonder the Emperor and his concubines & wives never left the place! It took us all day to get around, and we still hadn't seen it all. It is over 270,000sq m and dates back to the 1400's. I'll try to download the pics at some point. Our booties hurt from biking our way around the city and burning down the Peking duck we ate before going to the Beijing Opera & acrobatics show in a traditional tea house. Beijing has the largest avenues I have ever seen; 12 lanes wide! And the bike lane is like 2 Barcelona car lanes put together! Driving is mad. Spanish driving is a breeze compared to this, but we quickly got the hang of it. :-) More news after we climb the Great Wall in Simatai tomorrow!
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