Beijing 3 - Beijing?
The second day in Beijing was somewhat surreal - we spent the day at the Spanish Instituto Cervantes (pronounced ther-ban-tes I am told) for an exhibition of drawings from fairy tales, followed by a nice lazy afternoon at the delightful English book cafe called the Bookworm - found a beautiful small hardcover copy of the adventures of Hanuman which unfortunately was not for sale. The bookshop was having a Darwin festival with exhibits of dinosaur skeletons and the requisite scattering of hip young people with their imacs. We ended the night watching an Afghan movie.