Rained for the first time coming into the city. Quite a cool 12
degrees here. Staying at the same hotel we used in 2006 when Liz and I
were here on holiday.
We had a couple of diversions again today where local officials
decided to close down a 6 lane motorway for their own use. Covered the
1100 km from Xian in 13 hours.
On the way into both Xian and Beijing we passed the construction sites
of the new high speed rail link from Urumchi to Beijing via Xian. This
line will run at 250-300 kph over 4000 km. This will be the way to
travel across China in future.
We have two days off here to clean up the car. I plan to do some
shopping before flying back to Shanghai on the 11 th.
A colleague of Paddy's is to look after us while we are here.
It rained heavily on the way into Beijing. Huge amount of traffic even
though it was a Sunday evening.
Paddy says this trip on the blog site needs to renamed "flowers while
riding horses" expedition - a Chinese reference to looking at the
scenery while galloping ones horse.
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