噢哦噢哦::中国小女孩

郝妮. 我们在中国. 我不明白的事. 所以这样的:从珀斯飞香港. 不抖动. 香港飞往北京. 不抖动. 艾伦尔,难怪大家都装. 所以唉,一切良好的飞前,然后--我们. 中国 第一件事是上午06时,在寒冷侵袭我们. 这有点像从热休克身体、热点热珀斯. 第二件事给我们打(非常接近),约100万自行车. 香港机场与市中心之间胡同我要算两次点火米即多达我比她好. 事实. 报到.睡过. 起身. 然后等待兴奋的邓肯醒醒所以能去探索. 这就是我们应做的事,以后我们也穿上了衣服**我们拥有一切,因为它的所freakin'冷. 我心肠北京. 直截了当. 对,是灰如预期. 不错,这就有点肮脏如预期. 是的,人们到处吐痰如预期. 但这种神奇的魔术,你能感受到来自客,只是走在街上. 小红灯笼在线路上,疯狂车手垃圾繁忙道路和周围的孩子就溜冰冻湖泊. 令人震撼. 第二天,我们没有什么东西,你必须做的一切是在北京对近在咫尺. 因为我不懂历史, 政治或任何真正重要的东西我只叫他快步沿着邓肯背后问题大半天. 天安门广场-大. 无聊. 冷. 但显然有很多深入. 紫禁城-再次大规模. 载荷典型、建筑物和木屋中寻找龙/狮球在事物的嘴巴. 有些真是美丽. 它涵盖一些脚手架. 一切真是寒冷. 产成品一天喝绿茶和吃了不起,了不起食物的方式便宜筹码--筷子. 我现在亲. 你要,否则你挨饿. 我学到很快.

Now you know how I feel. We're in China. And I don't understand a thing.

So it went like this: flight from Perth to Hong Kong. Not a jitter. Flight from Hong Kong to Beijing. Not a jitter. Allen Carr, no wonder you were loaded. So yeah, all good on the flying front and then - there we were. In China. The first thing that hit us at 6am was the cold. A bit of a body shock from the hot, hot heat of Perth. The second thing to (very nearly) hit us, was about a million bicycles. Between the airport and our Hutong downtown I must have counted twice as many as Katie M. Which means I'm better than her. Fact.



Checked in. Slept. Got up. Then waited excitedly for Duncan to wake so we could go exploring. And that's what we did, after we'd put on *all* of the clothes we own as it's so freakin' cold.

I hearted Beijing. Straight away. Yes, it's grey as expected. Yes, it's a bit dirty as expected. And yes, the people spit all over the place as expected. But it has this amazing magic that you can feel from the off, just walking down the street. Little red lanterns line the pavements, crazy cyclists litter the busy roads and kids skate around on frozen lakes. It's amazing.



The following day we did the stuff that you kind of have to do in Beijing which is all on our doorstep. Because I know nothing about history, or politics or anything of any real importance I just trotted along behind Duncan asking him questions for most of the day.

Tiananmen Square and The Gate of Heavenly Peace - massive. Boring. Cold. But a lot went down there apparently.



Forbidden City - again massive. Loads of typically Chinese looking huts and buildings and dragon/lion things with balls in their mouths. Some of it was really beautiful. Some of it covered in scaffolding. All of it was really cold.



Finished the day off drinking green tea and with a trip to the 'best' Peking duck restaurant in town... Duncan and I were both sick in the night. Bleurgh.

(For those of you who do very little at work and kill time on the internet - amongst others David Earl this means you, checking your emails whilst you should be teaching children, shame on you - why not copy and paste all of the Chinese above into the Google language translator? The direct translation made me laugh. In fact, scrap that. If you want to kill time and laugh check out www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com. It's way better than my blog. )