Trans - Siberian Part 4 - Beijing (iii)
Tourism The road to the tube "Day 4 Peking International Youth hostel, Beijing China Friday the 7th of December 2012, 17.55 Quite woozy. Waking from mid evening sleep. Still not entirely awake as of yet. Today. Well, China is definitely insane. Its quite impressive, but its definitely insane. Up about 8 or so, needed to collect my trans-mongolian ticket so couldn't join Jonas and the other two in the Forbidden city - but I thought I'd be relatively quick so would meet them later. This was not to be, albeit mainly because of my foolishness and the scrap of drawing above (There is a fragmentary pencil of a corner of roof above this paragraph) I was going to get a taxi but a half formed plan to rent a bike lodged itself in my head, so I walked on with an eye out for such a rental place - didn't see one and ended up walking to the relatively distant tube stop. Right next to it was a small park with two old ladies waltzing to cl...