Inevitably, my camera finger went mad in China when Elaine and I travelled there in October 2012.
Below is just a small selection from the thousands of photos we took during our 17-day visit to Qingdao, on the east coast, and Beijing, a 5-hour bullet train journey north-west.
Life, culture, food, architecture, transport, signage, everything is different, so there is so much for the tourist’s eye to take in. We had such a great time there that, what we didn’t photograph last year we can capture in June 2013 when we return.