China Blog - Now in Beijing

Well, we made it from Shanghai to Beijing.  The travel was relatively uneventful.  The one hitch was that our valet didn’t find us at the airport, so we paid a taxi driver the equivalent of $72.00 to drive us from the airport to our hotel.  Perhaps its just the people we’ve interacted with at the hotel and airport, but it seems like everyone here speaks English.  The Grand Hotel Beijing is an atrium style hotel with nice appointments.  I’m looking forward to a leisurely morning, but I do want to get out “into the streets” before we meet with the full delegation this afternoon at 5:00pm.