Above: Beijing Airport

Arrived safely, hellish long flight unfortunately but I made my transfer from Manchester -> Heathrow -> Beijing successfully.

I’ve decided to post some images from my trip here on my blog - nothing work-related as I’m not allowed to but it’s so far removed from the western culture that I’m used to that I think it might make interesting reading now or in a few year’s time.

Arrived in Beijing airport this morning at 09:00 local. That would be about 02:00 GMT. Nice. Not much jet lag as I slept on the plane though.

This photo was taken out the window of the bus that was taking us to the Hotel:

Talking of flights, I never truly appreciated how big a 747 is inside until now. They are HUGE. It felt like flying in, I don’t know, a tennis court.

Went down to the Olympic green today. Interesting place, a few quite interesting corporate stands as well!

The Johnson & Johnson pagoda:

The olympic flame:

There was also the usual Chinese oddities, including some amazing development planning right here:

The description of boxing as an Olympic sport was also very interesting. Weird, but interesting:

I’ll be updating with some more tidbits soon Go Team GB!