Well what do you think of this. An update out of the plane.
We took the night train from Shaghai to Beijing. It's a trip of thirteen hours.


We’ve been visiting Beijing like real “trotters”, even though we didn’t find our restaurant a few times. We’ve seen the Forbidden City, the temple of love (ahum heaven…).


The art district which was really nice.
We ended this walk around with three big beers and some coke for only 15 quay. Today, Friday we climbed the great wall. And if I say that we climbed it then we really did. We arranged the trip yesterday at our hostel, left at 7:30 in the morning, drove for 2 to 3 hours and then walked for another hour to reach The Wall. It was really wonderful while this part of the wall was situated in the middle of nowhere.
This meant that there were no ski lifts or roller coasters. This part of the wall has not been restored yet so sometimes it was really hard to get up. But we had a really great experience, I think there is no better way to visit the wall.

Back in the hostel at around 5’O clock we grabbed some beers in the nearby supermarket, popped them and chilled out till our minibus arrived to bring us to the airport.
At the check-in we tried to get into business class while we weren’t sure in which class we were flying. At the gate Eise-Jan joined us and we got on the plane. Now we just had some “delicious” dinner (at 02:43).
But now I’m really getting tired and I’m going to sleep or at least try to.

The last few days were such a great way to end a beatyful summer and a wonderful trip to China.

Manny greets from the Praeters.
(Barbara, Mathieu, Niels, Nicolas, Pieter and Philippe)