I don’t have time to talk much about our visit to the Forbidden City. I’ll do a better write-up in the future as this trip was a quickie one. In general, it’s the biggest tourist attraction in Beijing. In the photo, on the far lower left background is a window with green decals. Any guess what it could be? (drum roll please….) Yes…it’s the Starbucks in the Forbidden City.
I thought they were pretty serious about putting one on every corner in the US…little did I realize that Starbucks wants to put one on every corner in the world. I actually feel really bad that the government allowed them to put one there because it sort of violates the spirit of what the emperors were trying to achieve. The Great Wall is a great example of the vast resources and energy they spent trying to keep everyone out of China. But then again, it was pretty hot and that Grande Mocha Frappachino sure hit the spot!
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