6th Apr 2006 1:35 AM
Greetings from a youth hostel in central beijing mother fuckers!
ARGGHHHH been a bit of a pain last couple of days, our "hotel" was in an old ruyn down residential area with barely anyhting useful nearby! so with orange cocking up and our phones not working was at least 2 days before i could even let parents know our plane hadn't exploded!
Well flight ws okay, saw some amazing sights of a sandstorm over iraq and the himalyas, and the great wall from the air. but by the time wwe arriveds we had been travelling for untold hours due to delays, so pretty slept all the first night. exept to wake for dinner, ended up eating a large soup you added stuff to as you went, the hosts pretty much did veerything for us as we had no idea, they suggested stuff which looked like snake skin, thought we would give it a go and ended being a mild hallucengenic with very very odd other effects, so didnt have too many of those!
woke up at 5 th next day, trying to find something edible, wondering around with the suprising amount of people that were up and trying to figure ouit how the hell to get some food (ended up eating fried bread stuff, with black and white slime....with bits)
headed for tianenman square, my god the vastness! and went round the forbidden city. Managed to find a old man called charlie who was a guide and spoke good english. he was great and told us loads as we were going around. was midway through restoring the whole place for the games. which was annoying due to scaffolding but the buildings they had already done looked amazing! got loads of photos!
Then randomlly was talked at by a chginese girl with very good english and her friend, they took us to the old beijing streets wqhcih were pretty cool, saw a bit of root worth 38,000 pounds!!! (couldnt take a picture, was yelled at by security gaurds)
its alittle overcast today so will not do too much as it is already quite late in day, might just go do some shopping! will try and get to the great wall tomorrow for a 2 day walk. hope the weather is good and my feet are up to it, thats about it for now guys, will let you know how things are going!
Bye from china!
Law
