Beijing Trip
This post has taken a while to get out the door, but it probably isn’t completely a bad thing because now I can reflect on my trip to Beijing without gushing too much.
As an undergrad I studied some Chinese economic history and I’ve wanted to visit mainland China ever since. I’ve been to Hong Kong on business a bunch of times and have always loved that, but never been to China proper before now.
The timing was pretty good too, we managed to get a great deal on Air New Zealand’s inaugural direct flight into Beijing which was kinda cool with the CEO, Rob Fyfe, and NZ’s Minister of Tourism, Damien O’Connor, onboard to celebrate the opening the of the new route. We even had a Maori welcome party at the Beijing end…
