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Our adventures in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus continue....
The dragon dancers then conducted their finale for the wedding guests and this included the lead dancer, who was no spring chicken, doing the splits on the parking area by the hotel steps. After this we spent a day walking around areas of Beijing in the direction of the main square. From the top of a road bridge you can see the permanent smog which prevails over the whole city. Also it was very noticable that everywhere we look there is massive development going on, with huge new bank and office buildings and underneath almost everyone, an underground shopping mall. These stretch for miles and miles and seem to be constantly busy with shoppers. Clearly this is now a very affluent society. In the evening we all six walked out to a traditional local restaurant, which we had spotted the evening before. We thought we were going to have to cope with John's phrase book and very difficult pronounciation, when we were very well aided by a young lady customer who spoke excellent English. She proceeded to organise a huge variety of dishes for us, so much in fact that we could just not eat it all. Unfortunately a lot of it was quite spicy and not to Jewel's taste. We were very surprised to find that once again the whole groaning table full came to only £20.00. Delicious stuff for most of us, but guess tomorrow we will have to go back to where we can get sweet and sour prawns. Tomorrow the Americans join us and the tour proper starts, so its off to bed and an early start. |
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Having recovered and had a good nights sleep, Joan and I got up with Pat & Bryan to have a 7 a.m. swim. Lovely 25 mtr swimmimg pool on the top floor of the hotel and we for sure needed the exercise after the flight. |