“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things - air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.”-John Stole

Slideshow of Eternal Chaos

Tuesday, 6 July 2010

Day 4

struggled sleeping last night, the heat was unbearable. woke up at around 5.30 to a traditional chinese breakfast from chens grandparents. it was very nice :D

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after breakfast me and chen decided to go visit a mountain with a slide going down it!! and the famous summer palace. we first went to the mountain, we took a ski lift to the top of the mountain and slid down on boards. it was great fun.and an amazing view of the city.
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next we went to the summer palace and looked around all the old buildings then took a boat on the lake with the palace surrounding it. what a view!!

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time to eat! we went to a place called 'big pizza' basically a rip off of pizza hut although at big pizza its only costs around 4 quid for a full buffet, drinks and desert buffet. alrighttttt!

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we then went to Beijing zoo and aquarium, although all the animals seemed to be sleeping, the aquarium was good thow :D
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finally we went back to chens place on the Beijing underground(i thought the london underground was busy)

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once we got back to chens, his mum told me we were going out for a meal with one of her friends from university and her son, great! we went to one of the biggest chinese restaurants i have ever seen. we had are own private room and waiter, finally i got to try real Peking duck and it was gorgeous, after the meal we walked back to there apartment. we walked through a street market and chens mum purchased some massive watermelons so me and chen had to carry them back home.

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