That was the longest night of my life. Our plane followed the night so that it was dark until we arrived to HongKong (22 hours after leaving winnipeg and watching to sunset there) on the flight into Beijing, I sat next to an interesting group from the UK - all 50 of the bunch were doing a 150 km walk over six days along the great wall as a fundraiser. I felt like joining them.
When we finally got to our hotel, I walked around downtown while Joce and Mone relaxed yesterday and a couple of things set in for me... First of all, I really can't understand anything here. It was bizarre to have no idea what is sold anywhere. Second, It is very clean here, no litter anywhere but the air quality is not great. You do see a lot of people walking around with face masks. Third, it is inexpensive to eat here, a beer costs around 60 cents and you are not supposed to tip anywhere in China. (I can't wait to go shopping!)
As you imagine we had an early night last night. We had a light supper which consisted of Hot & Sour soup, fried vegetables and dumplings at the little hotel restaurant (it cost 12 dollars for the three of us) - very good food. I was down for the count at 7:30pm and now I am awake and ready to go at 4am...
No comments:
Post a Comment