Oh dear...

Had to replan today because Nadine was unwell. Despite the wet towels and the paracetomol last night, she woke up still feeling crap and so stayed in bed all day, trying to sleep herself better. It sort of worked and she will be OK tomorrow which is just as well as I'll be leaving her here if she's not as tomorrow is the last day of the trip.

I went into the city to get some food, which was interesting as always, Check out these turtles and stuff in the local supermarket. Also bought a large bag to pack our assorted crap into – cost all of two quid - and then managed to stuff most of it into a workable arrangement.

So tomorrow, hopefully, we will have one last trek around Beijing before heading back to London on Sunday morning. The long flight will allow us to write a talk for next weekend and sort the photos to go with it. Neither of us can quite believe that we actually did make it all the way here, on unsuitable bikes, having decided it would be a laugh to try it. I'm not quite sure that had we thought about it properly, instead of just doing it, we would have actually had the bottle to set off. But we did and we had a fabulous time; we've been to some great places, met some great people, got into many scrapes, and what's more we're still talking......