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In China they also have the same controls at Coach Station's, the scanner is usually manned by a very bored looking security attendant. Not so much at train or subway stations, but certainly at coach stations loads of people seem to just ignore the scanners and just walk past them and don't get...
I've stayed in a great Hotel in Beijing several times and dispite being down a dark alley way, my room has always overlooked the throat of the main Beijing Station (the old one) and the remains of the City Walls.
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There is some really scary driving in China, the amount of times I've been in a clapped out VW Santanna with no seatbelts and I've had a taxi driver drive as if he was in the Fast & Furious makes me really think I should consider some form of life insurance. The Wife however, being Chinese...
It does however work in China, where at most big stations There are airport style scanners and some stations even pat you down, ditto Chinese subway and metro systems even at rush hour in Beijing. Meanwhile in Thailand The Bangkok Subway also has a similar system and again it does work. The...
You have a point there, its always that awful boom boom, MC'ing, big fish little fish cardboard box cack that's always being played excessivly loud on the train or upstairs at the back on the bus.
I did however have somebody on my train playing Dropkick Murphys at full blast.....
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