Farewell Beijing

It’s the last day today and I am exhausted - and probably ready to go home: there’s a lot to see and do in this amazing, interesting, hot, huge, dirty, smelly, noisy, ancient, new, foreign, friendly, fast and furious country - I just think that a week at a time is enough.

Anyway, for the last morning, we are up late and decide to go to the Curios market nearby, rather than the Temple of Heaven over the road and have a look around at some old crap that people are selling – nothing jumps out at me to buy (I already have my pro-Communism posters from the other night) so we make our way slowly back to the hotel to finish packing and check out, stopping to buy some breakfast snacks on the way. 

A quick stop to say cheerio to Ricky and we are on our way to the airport - actually far too early, but there had been reports on the news that the security had been heightened at Beijing Airport and a load of travellers had missed their flights, so rather than risk it...