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Old Apr 21, 2011 | 8:04 pm
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William S
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First time visitor to Beijing and China
Hello folks in China forum!
I will visit Beijing in the start of June this year for tourism
I will try to make it from the airport to my hostel by metro (I will of course print out its adress in Chinese just in case I have to do it in some other way) and I have som really simple questions.
Are stations marked in English (guess they are that on the airport line), is it easy to buy tickets for the metro with English?
I went along in Moscow where everything was in Russian since cyrillic is not too far from latin letters after all, but in Chinese? Not a chance. Also do restaurants in Beijing have menus in English? Guess they are probably 10 times the price the local people go to, but well that is the usual rule.

Also is it possible to bypass Chinese censorship by using a VPN connection? I like to go into "naughty" sites like Youtube.
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