Trips

After an eventful evening in Beijing, we flew out to Harbin, north of North Korea, in the morning of January 5th.  The previous night we ate at Da Dong restaurant near the Park Plaza (where we were staying).  We enjoyed Peking duck and Turtle Hot Pot both of which were interesting dining experiences.  On the […]

On our third day in Beijing, after we had returned from our 11km trek across the Great Wall at the Mutianyu section, we cleaned up and headed out for dinner nearby.  The hotel and our tour guide both recommended (without hesitation) the well known Da Dong restaurant which turned out to be very close to […]

‘Great’ is a term thrown around a fair bit these days.  A sporting ‘great’, a ‘great deal’ (a bargain), a ‘great disappointment’ (a.k.a the Australian parliament) but few things in our modern lives really stack up against the truly great things on Earth; the Pyramids of Egypt; the Coliseum in Rome, the Parthenon in Athens […]