Tales of the 'ANGRY GINGER'

Ok so there will be some Mongolia photos soon but I thought Id share a few of the Beijing classics with you first.

So here are some pics. 

The basic highlights:

-          Arrive at the apartment and manage to buy a SLAB of beer and get pizza delivered to our room.  Yep that is quite the exercise when you cant speak mandarin.

-          Trip to the great wall.  The part we went to said “CLOSED TO PUBLIC”  Gee don’t know why.  This section of wall we were at had all of 20 others if that and was beautiful, if not a bit dilapidated in parts. Alex and I kept pushing on as we spotted some single track we wanted to see first hand.  Took us to quite the run down section of wall.

-          Checked out the night market for dinner where Melinda Jackson who is quite the ‘Choiceaterian’ (chooses when to be vegetarian or not) decided SNAKE would be ok.  So as Alex was commenting on how it was strange the snake had no bones Mel was really enjoying it and telling us all how yummy it was.  Snake all gone.  Not more than three stalls later we work out ‘Snake’ is actually Sheeps Snake or otherwise know in English as ‘SHEEP DICK’  Oh yes Mel was not happy about this!  We were in hysterics and the jokes just keep on rolling on in.

-          We have walked about 50kms in the last week all over this city and also managed to get the hang of both the Bus and Subway system.  Love being the biggest and strongest in peak hour getting off the train.  It is actually fun.

-          Hired bikes and rode around the Houghton (older areas of town) whilst also getting mobed by the Paparazi.  They must have heard about my Mongoila Bike Challenge.  Too funny.  I of course signed autographs and made a few media statements before we got on our way.

So tomorrow we start our journey back.  It has been a great trip. I think I have managed to put on the weight I lost during the event and then alot more.  Food has been great, the people have been great and the rest has been very much needed.    Monday I will get on with the real challenge in life - WORK