Last of Beijing
We woke up a little later today, about 8am, normally I seem to get up at 5 or 6am & I caught up on a past post, whilst watching the only English TV channel, 24hr news. Subway line #1 was experiencing some delays & people were being encouraged to catch other means of transport after someone “fell” in front of the train. Subway line 1 seems to be one of the only lines that does not have automatic opening doors, so one could easily “fall” in front without any issues - perhaps that is why that they have the barriers there for so many trains in the first place here?
Anyhow, after that we went to the post office to post a couple of packages, one containing a couple of paintings that we bought, one by a Deaf artist in Mongolia (UB) & the other one that we found which we liked + a box of stuff, mostly books & some souvenirs. Boy was that a mammoth effort, we should have allowed at least 2 hours to do that.
We bought the big box (with the books etc) a few days before & left it unsealed (only the bottom taped up) as we had read that was the thing to do, as they like to look at it first. We had bought a knife from our cooking class a few days ago (40Y = $8) & that was taken out of the package, you can’t post it, although you can put it in your checked baggage when you fly - WTF? Not sure how to send it back, or if it will get to Canada, but it would be really cool if it did.
We sent it express post with China Post - DON’T DO IT!!!! It cost us $600 + to post (3048Y). We couldn’t get out of it either, all the paperwork was done & signed & stuck to the packages. We should have looked for a parcel company to send it through instead, but we were already running late for our flight, FUCK!!!! Earlier this morning, we received an email from Michael saying that our car still wasn’t sold, so a mistake like that really bites!!!
Off to the airport now to catch our flight, should have left at 11, but we are leaving just after 12pm now, hope we get there in time.