chiarman mao

allo. we found out we can publish blogs but we cant view the site whilst in china as the communists have blocked it - thank you chairman mao. dame will attempt to put photos on but he's up againt it as everything is in chinese - thank you chairman mao.

anyway, after a 45 hour train journey we arrived in beijing at 5 and half hours ago. in that time we found our pleasant youth hostel, had lunch for 50p in nice, small little restaurant and have checked our email. so thats that.

not much else to say really. in the last place we stayed dame stayed up till 3am to watch arsenal lose in the champs league final. i fell asleep as it was... well, boring, boring arsenal, plus that night i got drunk with some chinese guys who kept feeding me tsingtao beer, and then they paid for me. very nice guys. apparantly manderin-chinese for cheers is 'horseshit'. at least thats what they told me and thats what i shouted out every time we clincked out glasses.

so yeah, tomorow we will explore beijing. but in a couple of ours we will go and watch some traditional chinese musical performance in a book shop with these kung fu obssessed guys from england that we are sharing our dorm with. dame and i are a bit scared of them... thank you chairman mao.