The weekend before last we headed up to Beijing for a few days, our main intention was to see David Guetta performing at the Great Wall Music Festival, but we actually did more than just get wasted, and was a pretty incredible weekend...
We started off the weekend with drinks in the SWFC, Shanghai's tallest builder, aka 'The Bottle Opener', it was a Wednesday which meant free flow champagne for ladies for no cost, so couldn't really go wrong. We continued the night by heading to M1NT and luckily both Sarah and Luca got free flow wristbands, and we were on a promotors table, alcohol alcohol alcohol.
Thursday, after a number of chicken mcnuggets for breakfast we got on our 5 hour high speed train journey to Beijing and slept off the hangovers we had from the previous evening. Once we arrived and checked into the really weird hotel, with numerous stickers and a see-through shower wall door (luckily I could trust Charlee to not watch me shower) we went to grab some food with Sarah and Emma's Beijing friends. We also met up with a few girls from our uni who are studying there too, and basically began drinking, and stayed there until were the last out before heading to a club.
On Friday, we succeeded with a relatively early start for a day of being tourists. Luckily, I wasn't the only one who hadn't been to Beijing before, as both Steph and Titch, who are Sarah's friends from home hadn't been either, which meant we did a looong day of seeing sights. We went from the Temple of Heaven to Tiananmen Square, to a viewpoint over Beihei Lake where we could overlook the Forbidden City. It was all pretty pictoresque but very tiring walking around gardens and temples all morning, so we stopped for lunch, which pretty much took us all into a food coma, even though we only managed to eat 1/4 of the dumplings we ordered. That's when we attempted our good deed for the day; mission find a tramp. Unfortunately the only guy we found had no arms, and we thought it highly innapropriate to give him a bowl of dumplings and chopsticks to eat them, so we settled on leaving them next to a bin, in case the usual tramps go looking for leftovers in the trash. We climbed to the top of a viewpoint over Beihei and could see a view overlooking the forbidden city, which was pretty spectacular. However it was slightly ruined for me by the mammoth bees flying around. I'm not a fan of small bees, let alone ones this big, some of my photos even make them look like birds, so its not a surprise I was running round screaming whilst getting funny looks from the Chinese tourists.. On saturday evening we had dinner at a Korean Restaurant, and I headed home after because I felt sleep rather than alcohol would be more benefical to me before festival day!
FESTIVAL DAY! The morning started by grabbing food, buying alcohol and meeting Sarah's friends at their flat. There was literally swarms of people trying to get on the bus, it was crazy, the closer you got to the front the more squashed you became, but I got on first out of our group and managed to get 5 others with me so wasn't soo bad! We took a load of photos in the car park when we eventually arrived, bought chinese hats and finished our drinks which we werent allowed to take in. We got in and went to the toilet and it was the most vile experience of my life, I have NEVER smelt anything so bad than that big, open pit from hundreds of people before me. We all kept getting split up and I kept bumping into random people who had also travelled from Shanghai. We queued forever for hotdogs and pad £5 for them, yet when we got there there was no sausages so we just got buns and ketchup instead, not a happy moment, so instead our dinner was a pot of mini donuts. Oh so healthy. I managed to smash my chinese phone at the festival thanks to it slipping out of my hand whilst on someones shoulders, but YOLO, it was a rubbish phone anyway and I can still use it. Could have been worse, could have been my iPhone. Phewww.
Guettas performace was prettttty damn good, I got split from the others for a while because I was like an excited little child wanting to get near the front. By the end, we were all absolutely exhausted so it emptied and everyone went back on the coaches which were a mission to find and get on, this resulted with me crouching on the floor in seats of the coach with a bag on my back and hat on my head to try smuggle people on the last bus. Worked though, so can't really complain. The night ended very healthily with a McDonalds, except my stomach was not a fan of the overdose of mini donuts, chicken nuggets and alcohol, so when I got back to the hotel let's just say I wasn't feeling too special.
We got up sunday and headed to a cafe to say bye to everyone we'd met at the weekend, we then got taxis to the train station for our train trip home. This also meant more chicken nuggets. I have chicken nugget problems, and its something I learnt during this trip. The train back wasn't so bad, I studied, slept, and the usual things you do to pass time on a long distance journey. By the time we all got back we were shattered. Managed to head to Helen's for one drink with Steph, but then came straight home and slept a goood 10 hours in preparation to begin another week of boring class.
The weekend was insane and I am soo pleased we went earlier for a day of sightseeing to say I'd done it. The only thing I would do differently is to actually climb and touch the great wall, just to say I've done it, but despite this, I have no complaints. This weekend is on par with one of the best ever.
Happy days.
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