My first day in Beijing

I arrived last night at the airport at 3am, heard so much about the bad traffic, but at 3 am only a 30min plus drive to hotel. Arrived at Shangri-La world at round 4am, pretty quite, but impressive looking lobby. This now, 5 hours later, was expecting to sleep till noon after cramped flight and late arrival. Could not sleep after 8:45 , so opened the curtains and this is what greeted me. Yes, no smog and an actual blue sky ( rare it turns out ) gorgeous looking day, but, arriving 30 degrees celcius in Sydney, much colder here with thermostat topping in at 3 degrees and the traffic looking around the room, and I knew I would have issues connecting to the internet, but did not realize it would be this bad woauw, the Kardashian would suffer a Social media death here shower and breakfast later and still looking like a fab day outside, I want to go explore, but having a meeting with the fashion girls from Harpers Bazaar After meeting and lunch, about a 40 min drive from hotel ( which I’m sure would have been a 10-15 min walk, but the traffic oooh the traffic 🙂 The girls drive me back to the hotel, but a few blocks out I recognize the back of the hotel up ahead, so I ask to be let out and walk the rest of the way They nicknamed this building the short pants, or was it underpants, forgot still lots of building going on, despite the decline in Iron sales to China from Australia really feels like I am in New York, with all the building and the traffic, but at the same time, you know you’re not this could easily be a building on the east side on the river near the piers back in my room, and been giving a face mask as I’m told the smog will be back tomorrow, and I should wear the mask before I start coughing  and there are a lot more particles in the air now as well, so it is making for a very nice almost surreal sunset, with that amazing gold glow and yes, heavy traffic in the other direction now final walk out to find something to eat