China

[jules1955]

Well I made it to China and back in one piece ! I upped my pred to 10 and I think that helped quite a bit. 3 day tour in Beijing - Tiananmen Sq, Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, Summer Palace, Ming Tombs, Sacred Road, Cable car to Great Wall, Tea House, Jade Factory, Lama Temple, Panda’s, Silk making factory. Then bullit train to Xi’an My Daughter lives in an apartment on the 30 floor !! ( Beijing Train Station - quite an experience 🙈🙈🙈 ) Terracota Warriors, old Town Xian, and surrounding wall, beautiful gardens, boat ride, Muslim street ( amazing street food ) Markets, shopping malls, eating out every night too. Then flight to Beijing and onward flight to Heathrow and then drive home to Cornwall. I did push myself, because I felt if I had to go and rest for half the day it would spoil it for everyone else. I really don’t think my family “ GETS “ what it is to have PMR.

It is lovely to be home and I have reduced to 8 Pred for this week and back to 7 next week. I will let you know how that goes. Hope everyone is doing ok. ❤️

[EdithWales]

Well done Jules, that’s wonderful

Those Terracotta Warriors are one of the most amazing sites I have ever seen. The vanity of the man

Keep well

[jules1955 in reply to EdithWales]

Yes Warriors was amazing !

[PMRpro Ambassador]

Wasn't it all fantastic? Did all that when we were there too - except your pandas and the cable car to the Wall - that would have been great!

[jules1955 in reply to PMRpro]

Cable car was a little scary 😳

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to jules1955]

Why?

[jules1955 in reply to PMRpro]

It was a long way down

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to jules1955]

They are very safe! I tried to find who built it - most in the world stem from companies here!

[Hidden]

Well done and it all sounds fantastic.

[Yellowbluebell]

I would have probably curled up in a corner and told everyone to go away with that schedule. Well done for managing such a brilliant but exhausting trip.

[jules1955]

I cannot lie, it was exhausting, and I so much looked forward to coming home to rest 😘

[alvertta]

Well done. Glad it was such a success

[Rose54]

Takes me back a few years did that for my Sons 21st Birthday it was amazing .It was 26 years years ago stood in Beijing Train Station with the locals staring at us and picking at our colourful clothes .

Guide said most came in from Country side and had never seen white people before and as thay wear dark colours fascinated them .

[jules1955 in reply to Rose54]

Some Chinese people stopped us to have their photo taken with us and some came and stood right next to us and just LOOKED at us !

[PMRpro Ambassador in reply to jules1955]

We had that too - especially at the Wall where students kept asking for photos.

[MhairiP]

Your trip sounds amazing! Hopefully you'll have plenty of time to recover now and will be back to 7mg soon. Think of all the memories you can enjoy!

[Longtimer]

How wonderful, feel short of breath reading all what you did!....keep well....