In the afternoon after a nap, we

Day 1 (Friday) Departure from Saint Exupéry Thursday, August 30 at 17:00. Arrival in Beijing hair cell at the scheduled after a flight safely hour. The weather is beautiful, 30 C but moist enough. Well, our car is not to go to the airport exit: first baptism of Chinese to buy a phone card, how to call with and eventually epad ersys join our Chinese Contact Maggie Zhang. Thirty one dense highway on which we zigzagons between trucks traveling at 50 km / h and voila us to Tianjin. The outskirts of the city are a mix of impressive interchanges and intersections anarchic new buildings or buildings and barracks, small areas cultivated.
We enjoy having a bilingual contact us immediately to resolve two important epad ersys details: open an account epad ersys in a bank yuan and buy a SIM card for mobile phone. epad ersys Everything takes us an hour because the Bank of China is full of people who obviously buy or sell securities at the Chinese stock market. Maggie tells me that a lot of people bought these kinds of actions to enjoy the boom in the Chinese economy, which she attributes including the Olympic Games. Finally with my passport and for 15 yuan (1.5 ), I get a bank account epad ersys with a passbook to keep operations and a Chinese bank card that allows withdraw money and pay in most stores . Remains to be seen how to pay wages on!
At China Mobile, I take a formula to 70 yuan per month, set the counter to come monthly. Then you have to buy a phone number. There are 30, 40, 50 or 60 yuan, it depends if the numbers are good. Maggie advises me numbers 30 yuan: they contain "4", it does not look very good to me. I take one at random to 40 yuan. My Nokia base accepts the SIM card without flinching but has difficulty to display the SMS ideograms China Mobile (which seem to tell me my credit available).
We finally arrive at our home around 15 pm on the eighth epad ersys floor of a residential hotel. The staff is very welcoming. The residence appears to be overwhelmingly epad ersys occupied by Japanese families, some Chinese in Singapore or Hong Kong, and very few Westerners.
Day 2 (Saturday) We slept rather not too bad despite the time difference but we still struggling to emerge. The girls did a night of 14 hours and parraissent pretty fit. The atmosphere at breakfast confirms the strong presence of Japanese in the hotel. Be prepared for 10h for the shuttle epad ersys E-MART supermarket. Obviously the first races are quite laborious, but there is almost everything what we want (except vinegar). The supermarket epad ersys seems fairly upscale with beautiful fruits, vegetables, meats, prepared epad ersys foods, and ultimately much less crowded than Carrefour epad ersys Vénissieux Tuesday night!
In the afternoon after a nap, we'll ride around in the great "pedestrian" street downtown "Heping Lu" (rue de la Paix). In fact never really pedestrian street and it is good practice good look before crossing from one side to the other because of the many bikes rustic braking. The Chinese are rather warm, but we stared at constantly. When we stop, we expose ourselves to what we require to take Alice and especially Juliette photo. It will not amuse long. I test my Chinese in a department store and using the pocket dictionary Lonely Planet I ask radius "toys". 4th, we get out.
A little further on, an animation "romantic song with decorations epad ersys and fireworks." Then workers in rags remake a building facade on the scaffolding bamboo without platforms 10-20 m above the ground ... I do not dare shoot.
In the evening we tried the restaurant in the gallery just outside the hotel. The food is excellent, it looks like very little to what we eat in Chinese restaux in France: little sour flavors sweet, not too spicy but with lots of herbs, vegetables, meat cooked in a broth. epad ersys However, it was really hard to be understood, so that there is a bilingual epad ersys map: girls are entitled to 2 glasses of hot water is controlled too many dishes. I ask ranges for girls, and I keep chopsticks for us. The table looks like a battlefield at the end of the meal, but the staff did not really seem to resent us.
Day 3 (Sunday) A trip to the playroom for children and swimming pool this morning. A big storm broke suddenly on the stroke of 14h: finally time looks pretty in Lyon this time period. The internet connection in the hotel function