We love Beijing

so it has been almost one week now and not a single entry on our blog. Well guess what - beijing rocks but internet access in China sucks big time. blogspot.com ? blocked! facebook? blocked! etc etc

well fortunately I found some way to blog anyway (thanks collin!) To get to the next annoying thing right away: transfering pics from the camera to the laptop using the usb cable doesn't work right now. It is painfully slow and then at some point it just aborts. Guess i need to get some CF card adapter USB dongle from somewhere.

Apart from that there pretty much only good news though. Our hotel is great. We finally managed to visit the great wall today which was also great. We went to Simatai and not Badaling. The latter is crowded while we were almost on our own. Admittedly that is also partly due to the fact that weather wasn't perfect. It was in fact a bit foggy and the view hence was not as good as it could have been. Still it was quite a nice experience. We were quite tired when we got back home but had to go out for dinner after a short break because I was enormously hungry.

After we pretty much stuffed ourselves with nice Chinese food it was time for a massage. A one hour oil massage for around 10EUR - for that money you won't even get your middle finger massaged in Germany... and it was great.

After that we did some shopping and then ended up where we are sitting now. A nice small cafe in a Beijing hutong. And that is where I close for today. Tomorrow we are off to Luoyang and I hope we will have internet access there so I can hopefully write some more and maybe upload some pictures..