I arrived at Beijing airport this morning after a rather long 10 hour flight from Frankfurt. Everything was going smoothly until I arrived at the luggage carousel. I waited… and waited… and that blue bag simply did not appear. It turns out that they didn’t manage to get it on the plane at Manchester so it will come over on tomorrows flight and they will deliver it to my hostel. However, this means no fresh clothes, no towel and no shower gel!
In the end, I hit the shops and picked up a T-Shirt for a couple of quid and hired a towel from reception. Should get me through to tomorrow! Not the best of starts - but at least I’m not in a hurry.