Today we decided that we did not want to do anything and instead use the day to get a new dictionary for Manu, as we somehow must have lost her original one (15+ years old, lots of history) during one of those crowded subway rides.

So after breakfast, for which Martijn got some good baozi, we went to the foreign book store on the Wanfujing, the big shopping street. It was really amazing what they had for books, mainly English but also quite some dictionaries for German, French, Spanish etc. For a mere 36 Yuan we found a good dictionary that was even a bit more up-to-date than the old one (like, the word internet could be found). Martijn even found a book for learning Chinese – although Manu was skeptical that he would really use it. After that we left and went to the other side of the street to look for some food in the food courts..

We ended up doing a (for here) expensive running sushi as this immediately got the interest of Charlotte – she really got into Sushi since about one month before our trip.

During our sushi festival Manu hat a better look as the book and found out that one important part was missing, the German-Chinese did not have the pingyin which is used to know how to pronounce it. So basically worthless. That meant back to the shop to get another one, and she was able to pay 1yuan more and has now got the follow up book of her old one.

And Martijn, ok, he also had a better look and though about the learning Chinese book…. and was now able to agree with Manu that it was probably a wast of money and backpack weight. So he tried to get a refund for the book, something that is not really done here. Some arguing later he got his money 🙂 And he did not even speak Chinese.. muahahaha

After we got back in the hotel Manu and Charlotte went for a nail workout in the local nail boutique and as shown below it was a whole girly thing. Martijn used the time to bring back the (still quite full) subway cards and also had a treatment, although a Chinese foot massage is not really a gentle thing.

At night we had a final diner in the restaurant Charlotte identified the first night in Beijing – what better way to end our stay here – and we packed all our stuff for the train ride the next day…..