Beijing Take One

For our first school holiday we took a mini trip to Beijing, inspired by The Killers playing in concert there.  We were warned that the National Day holiday is not the best time to travel to hot spots like Beijing as they are even busier than usual.  We ignored the warnings and were amused to find them very true!  Most obvious was our trip to Tiananmen Square, which was a result of going to the Forbidden City and being deterred as it was so busy you couldn’t even move once inside.  We didn’t make it into Tiananmen square either as walking towards it as far as our eyes could see was wall to wall people.  There was some silver lining in that we found a great little art gallery and got some lovely paintings for our apartment.  I guess we will just have to go back to Beijing for some sightseeing. lucky for us it is a quick 40 minutes up on the train.

Bullet train

Higest speed I saw was 289 km/hour

Tickets delivered to our room, thanks to the concerige

Amazing shopping experience of Ya Show

Mr T perusing the selection of trainers

Street food…

All of the strange things you see on tv were here

We chose not to give it a try

Chinese massage in silky pjs

Killers concert, a much smaller venue than we anticipted

Lasers

Turners

Biggest cake we have ever seen, with a price tag to match

That is $328,000 or £203,358

Flower displays on the streets of Beijing

Just outsite Tiananmen Square

We later saw that there were over 800,000 people about that day

Mrs T