In Which We Visit The Great Wall and Have a Bit of Unexpected Excitement

4 June Thank goodness for Groud. She’s loaned me her adapter into which I’ve plugged my computer and am at last charging my phone. However, I’m sitting in the room because you need the room key to get power to …

In Which I Discuss the Events of the Afternoon and Evening of 3 June

3 June Afternoon At the end of the tour, the group split up. In what would prove to be a rare occurrence, Groud went off to make travel arrangements leaving all of us on our own. I don’t recall where …

In Which We Visit Tienanmen Square and The Imperial and Forbidden Cities

Monday 3 June As promised, we had an early start today. (Tomorrow’s will be even earlier.) We met in the lobby at the appointed time of 07:30 and tromped around the corner as a troupe to grab some breakfast at …