Day 3 - A proper Adventure!

Well today has definitely had it's ups and downs. I went for a little jog this morning, (the photos are views as I jogged) and I found a lovely park where people were doing Tai Chi and others were playing table tennis and badminton, I'll definitely go there again. I also decided to find my way to the subway and the right stops for the dance school. Took a taxi (very cheap) but then the subway was really expensive, it turned out that I could have taken a different route that would have only cost me 50p! A nice Australian gave me his subway pass as he was leaving and there is enough credit to last me 3 more days on the subway - what a stroke of luck. Chongwenmen is a bit like I imagine cities in America, really tall buildings and the really large department stores. I looked but resisted - there didn't seem to be real bargains.

I took the tube back - great. I got to my final stop and asked taxi drivers to take me to the Lido Hotel (a very big Holiday Inn near my apartment) and none of them seemed to know what I'm talking about. A kind passer-by helped and said the bus goes past it. So I hopped on the bus, only to find that it went past the Marriott and he'd got confused. So I had no idea where I was apart from walking in what I thought was roughly the right direction. After about a km (getting tearful at this stage, no taxis stopping for me) I decided to walk back to the Marriott as they would know. So bless them, they said I didn't need a taxi and walked me to within 400m of the hotel. Phew! what a relief, in fact had I known to take a right turn, I would have seen the signs myself.

I'm now very relieved to be back in my room. So tomorrow I'll need to try that again and actually find the dance school and source a better way home. My feet are aching...