Graham and I spent part of our last day in Beijing at the Summer Palace. Wow! It's a very large complex along one shore of a lake on the fringes of the city.
We walked the grounds marveling at the architecture of the pavillions and buildings, enjoying the cool lake breezes (it was a hot, hazy and humid day...surprise!) and even had lunch at a restaurant in the Hall for Listening to Orioles, which is supposedly very famous and has entertained over 100 heads of state from various countries. It was an interesting menu. Each page of the menu listed a multi-course variety of options that was priced for 2 people. You didn't order the exact food you wanted...you ordered the page. The pages got more expensive as you leafed through the menu, as the food listed on them got more complex or expensive. Luckily, Graham and I found a page around the middle of the restaurant that listed a variety of foods we thought we'd like. It was a huge meal...they just kept bringing stuff until the whole table was full of plates of food. We gorged ourselves and there was still plenty of food left.
After that, we came back to the hotel to pack and get ready to leave tomorrow (Wednesday). All of us left had dinner together then went to the hotel bar to have a beer and play a couple games of pool.
Looking forward to catching our flight home tomorrow! It's storming outside so hopefully that weather will have moved out of the area and there'll be no delays like the 14-hour delay the group going out Monday experienced.
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