Day 4...Beijing

I say this day is the start of the tour but in actual fact its a 'free day', I think it is a ploy by tour companies to make their tour appear longer than it is. Also, I forgot to mention a good tip yesterday...make sure you receive the tour information prior to the tour starting, I spent hours on the internet trying to find out where the group was suppose to meet and at what time - its our own fault for not realising we hadn't been sent the information, but it didn't cross either of our minds! Doh! Luckily enough, my plea for help travelled half way across the world in seconds and we were helped out. This makes me think though, before we set out, my dad had said to me travelling isn't the way it used to be in that gone are the days you reach a country border, get refused entry and have to wait weeks before you hear from your home country, its so much easier nowadays with the internet. In fact, if my memory serves me correctly I think he said it is no longer 'real travelling'...to that I say god bless the internet...we don't want the hassle of telegrams, money wiring, stamps and bureau de changes...its easy sailing being able to rely on a computer as they are everywhere! Real travelling...give me strength!!

Enough ranting...back to the day at hand, I hate to say that it wasn't actually filled with adventures of late apart from meeting up with the other people on the tour group. Everyone is really 'nice' (such a horrible word), there is one other couple who are 'travelling', they have just arrived from Japan, everyone else is just doing the tour as a holiday, hopefully it will be happy rainbows and pots of gold for the next ten days - i have no idea what that means - i apologise.

The great wall tomorrow...the question on Doms lips will be, "Is it true you can see it from anywhere in the world?" If you don't get that reference, you don't watch enough Father Ted!

On that, I bid you farewell.

Team Domro