Shanghai.

Yesterday was quite a scary day for me in Beijing.

1. The temperature hit 38 degrees. The feeling of feeling hot but not perspiring was scary – I thought I was having a heat stroke or something.

2. Apparently all the vehicles came out onto the Beijing streets yesterday. My taxi ride from North Donghuashi Street to 3rd West Ring Road North took 45 minutes and cost 50 RMB. I’ve never ever taken a cab in Shanghai that took so long and was so expensive, but I got it in Beijing. Worse still, the cab from 3rd West Ring Road North to the train station was stuck in such a massive jam in Xidan that the two of us got fed up and took the subway instead.

But all in all, the two days in Beijing were well-spent. We managed to get what we aim to do done, talked to some nice people, and basically had a nice time there. Of course we could have done without the hot weather, but then again it’s kind of a good training before Shanghai gets that hot.

Because of the nature of our visit to Beijing, I didn’t manage to take that many pictures. Here’s a couple of them:

Taken at East Chongwenmen Street at approximately 7.20pm.

Taken at Tian’anmen at approximately 7.45pm.

Wangfujing – Beijing’s equivalent to Nanjing Road. But then again, Nanjing Road is so much brighter than Wangfujing. Well, considering the massive difference between Shanghai and Beijing, this is about just right.

Pretty tired from the train ride last night. The strange thing was that I slept from 10.30 all the way to 8 this morning. The hard-bed sleeper wasn’t really that bad, in fact it was much better than what I expected. Considering that it was almost 200 RMB cheaper than the direct train with the soft-bed, this is a viable option for me to go Beijing in the future.

Off to sleep. See you guys around.