The waiting days. Time to visit Tienamen Square, the Forbidden City and the Great Wall.
As well we got to ride the bus back to our port of entry to attend a class of instruction to qualify for our driving licences and vehicle registration plates. A most amusing distraction but far from necessary and wasting time but if we had known that it would be many more days waiting we would have been far from happy with the charade.
So we visited the square, then the Forbidden City, and renewed my repugnance for ostentatious wealth in the midst of poverty which there was absolutely plenty of.
Then the wall, on the face of it a defense device and perhaps justified, but the rebuilding of it at the huge cost of lives and health, makes one feel very uneasy.
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