Sunday 21 October – Today we travelled out for a meal with Ryan our tour guide and his girlfriend at their apartment situated 30 miles out of Beijing. Ryan lives with his parents but they were away on holiday.

We had a lovely simple meal, it was the best food and the most enjoyable meal so far. It was also great to see how every day Beijingers live, where they live and the sort of food they eat.

The one downside was the traffic in Beijing, it took us one and half hours to get out there and two hours to get back.

We have been very lucky with the weather so far, its been sunny every day.  Its chilly in a morning and in the evening but the weather during the day has been warm and very pleasant.