Off to Beijing

After a sleepless night (needlessly worrying I wouldn’t wake to the alarm), I got up at 4am super excited for our adventures in China!
As we were about to walk out the door I remembered I hadn’t packed a hairbrush!! A near disaster was averted; although I imagine they probably s sell them over there.
The drive in was fabulous using all the new tunnels and motorways. Only about 45 minutes to the airport from Liam’s place. The tolls however are probably the same price as the flight.
Liam tried his first beer in a lovely tall golden can and I had a coffee which mum would’ve hated as it automatically comes with milk and sugar 😂.
Flight one is to Schenzhen and then onwards to Beijing.
Schenzhen airport is the biggest building I have ever been in! Holy moly!!
We successfully navigated our way through immigration and walked and walked and walked and walked to our gate for the next flight.
Once we found it we had plenty of time for a meal. So many options! We settled on duck (Liam) and chicken (me). It was delicious, and as an added bonus we figured out how to use Alipay which is super simple.
The airports are both very modern and clean with water stations and toilets everywhere. Whilst there are at least 10 loos, only one is western 😬. Chinese women obviously have much better thigh strength than me. The western toilets are actually their disabled ones………
Final leg was a bit squishy but only 3 hours. We have now spoken to a few fellow TripADeal (TAD) travellers who seem quite nice. The average age is “retired” and Liam is by far the youngest, but we’ve found a few in their early 30’s too.
Our guide is Adam and everything is super well organised. The hotel was about 35mins away so we didn’t actually get to our room until 1am local time….3am back home. We’ve been awake nearly 24 hours.
Room
Is massive and there are two beds! Woohoo. We will sleep well tonight.Read more