Friday, August 1, 2008

Across the World

Quite a smooth trip to China - all the way into Xian. We left Swansea at 8.30am and caught our flight at about 4pm from Heathrow. Then we changed in Copenhagen on to the Beijing flight.

We had only been in Beijing for 2 minutes when Barry was ripped off in a tea shop to the tune of 384 yuan (30 pounds!) We were trying to have a cup of tea so when they thrust a menu at him he assumed it was normal and picked one. They ended up bringing him a very small tea canister (3inches by 1inch) and reliving him of his money! LOL.

Got the most rickety minibus from Xian airport to the Youth Hostel, and everywhere there were people with bikes without lights and so on, motorbikes and crazy driving. But we finally got there all in one piece and fell into bed!

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