After a quick 4 hours on the fast train we got to Beijing. It's cold. Bloody cold. Even I am wearing a merino undershirt and a jumper, long pants and gloves, and its still cold. Tomorrow I'm even changing my crocs for shoes and socks.
Today we went to Tiananmen square. Apart from a huge gate and a memorial hall to the great Mao it is quite barren. There is security screening just to walk onto it which is a bit confusing, there's nothing realy there.
We also had a look around the railway museum which is quite good. There's 4 floors, the basement has sand table models of the achievements of China's railways and flashest stations.
The ground floor had a lot of memorabilia of the old trains, the next floor is dedicated to the high speed trains, the top floor had some maps and computerized displays.
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