‘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 […]
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The Forbidden City – Hall of Supreme Harmony Well, please join us for our second day in China’s capital city of Beijing! As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, our itinerary for the second day was quite sweet and succinct – The Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square, Jingshan Park and the Temple of Heaven. The good news […]
Continue ReadingBeijing – Day 1
We landed this morning in China’s capital of Beijing, which is just under two hours flight time from our current hometown of HangZhou in Zhejiang province. Our flight departed a little early at 8:25am and we touched down and left the plane in Beijing at about 10:30am with no hassles or delays. It was a […]
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