Am riding in the van with Sunflower (our tour guide) who keeps scratching her ankle and George's family. Sunflower's talking nonstop, smiling all the time and explaining different quirks of Beijing.
We went to the Olympics stadium - it was fun. I enjoyed taking pics. Chinese tourists from all over seem to visit it. If you look for long you can tell the difference amongst the faces.
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We had lunch at Aria, an Italian restaurant in World Trade ctr hotel. Then I got off near Forbidden city and had an amazing time walking around Beijing.
Forbidden city is in distinct layers - with each palace playing its part. Kings changed clothes, received visitors, thought and did diff stuff in diff palaces. I particularly liked the Middle Harmony Palace. The theme itself was to bring a sense of balance in one's ruling of the kingdom.
After Forbidden City I walked for several km to NanLuoGuXian st which has a lot of bars and eateries. Classic backpacker lane. I loved it. I got tshirts at Plastered 8 store, ate asparagus sandwich at Alba restaurant and bought tickets for the great wall hike. I managed quite easily w English, the translation book and broken Chinese. You really can get by in Beijing w English. I'm thinking that it'll never be like it is in say Mumbai but it's likely to be like Paris.
Later at night aftr I finished wrk stuff, I walked w the hotel waiter (fantastic guy) to buy something to eat for the hike. I spent a little time with george, jenny and his friend john and later retired to my room w beer, tv, internet and a head full of thought about the difficult hike w my knee.
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