Month: July 2025

Two non-eventful days. After getting the metro to the enormous Hongqiao mainline station we got the high-speed train to Hong Kong, which passed some lovely scenery of small villages with … Read more

This was one of those less-than-productive days which happens every so often on our type of journey. The plan was to go to Yu Yuan (Yu Garden) which is a … Read more

In the morning we went to see the Jing An Temple, literally 100 metres from the hotel. We get a beautiful birds-eye view of it from the hotel’s breakfast room.The … Read more

The lady in the ticket office at Jinju Hutong metro station told us that we needed to go to Beijing West mainline station to get the high-speed train to Shanghai. … Read more

The idea was to go to the Great Wall at Badaling and, as we can’t get the internet, we were reduced to asking the concierge how to get there. A … Read more

Just as last year, we could only get into Tiananmen Square by booking a permit a day in advance and I assumed that we could only get into the Forbidden … Read more

After a much-deserved sleep and bath, we walked down Wangfujing Street to a hutong (small side street) to look at the menu of a famous roast duck restaurant which dates … Read more

After a much-better-than-expected breakfast (the hotel cost us less than £20), we asked the lovely girls at the hotel reception about travel to Beijing and they couldn’t understand us. A … Read more

On leaving the station we were accosted by a short fat man with an incongruous white trilby. Grabbing my arm he kept saying “China, China” and he pulled us towards … Read more

The internet (ha ha ha) says there is a bus going from Ulan Bator to China 4 times a day from the Dragon Bus Terminal 400 metres from the hotel. … Read more