First off the hostel here is the best i`ve stayed in, which is a good job considering i`m stuck here till the 6th of October. For some reason i`m the only person who didn`t get the memo about Chinese national holiday, which means every train, bus and plane, hostel and hotel is booked up. The Chinese don`t piss around when it comes to holidays, all 1.7 billion of em get up and go somewhere.
This obviously means i`m in Beijing for the parade on the 1st which will be insane (check out the far superior pictures than mine on boston.com) but the place is in overdrive at the moment and there`s a proper buzz around the place. Security's at a maximum and it`s the 60th anniversary so it`s going to be huge. A few people have warned saying to keep a low profile as it`s a really strict festival and one i don`t think touristy, photo happy foreigners are all to welcome to. Sure i`ll be fine though...
My first day which was spent in a very tired state was at the forbidden city and the surrounding areas, it`s a good job it`s hugely impressive as anything less than stunning and i would of been found asleep on the floor. Like everything in Beijing though it`s epically big, i`d always thought it was a single square, the one you see in every film set in ancient China. But it`s not, there`s like 7 of them, then hundreds of corridors coming from them, then a huge garden area as well.
I slept like a baby that night, well till 5 o clock at least, when my alarm went off and i had to get ready for the great wall trip.
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to yet another travel blog!
This is the second time I’ve wrote this intro thing. I wrote one trying way too hard to sound the way I wish I could write. The truth is though, since my GCSE’s I haven’t had to do any proper writing what-so-ever. I did all art A-level as well as an art degree and now work as a graphic designer.
Hopefully it turns out alright, I’m going to try to update as much as possible and if you need to email me privately I’ll be checking my mails every week or so, so just click the mail button above. If the writing becomes too painful then you can go straight to all the photo’s from the "Pictures" link at the top, as will all my videos.
Cheers to anyone who ends up reading this, although I’m sure it’ll become a spam paradise of abuse from friends and work colleagues..cya all in a year or so :D
This is the second time I’ve wrote this intro thing. I wrote one trying way too hard to sound the way I wish I could write. The truth is though, since my GCSE’s I haven’t had to do any proper writing what-so-ever. I did all art A-level as well as an art degree and now work as a graphic designer.
Hopefully it turns out alright, I’m going to try to update as much as possible and if you need to email me privately I’ll be checking my mails every week or so, so just click the mail button above. If the writing becomes too painful then you can go straight to all the photo’s from the "Pictures" link at the top, as will all my videos.
Cheers to anyone who ends up reading this, although I’m sure it’ll become a spam paradise of abuse from friends and work colleagues..cya all in a year or so :D
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