China

After a month in SE Asia, we've moved north to China. In some ways, it's less foreign in Beijing than it was in Thailand, Laos or Cambodia. At least the areas we've been in Beijing are ultra-modern developed areas (I realize there are other parts of the city and certainly the country that are anything but).
However, as a tourist this is a harder area to function in, or at least there's more of a language barrier. Everywhere we went the past month people, at least the people who where involved in selling things, spoke English. English menus, english signs. There is far less English spoken or written here. And the various English translations are far harder to understand.