The best part of my Beijing — Helsinki flight? The window seat!

To finish this Beijing 2008 series, I’d like to give you a few tips for your next trip to China’s capital.

Once you enter the underground Silk Market at the Yonganli subway station, some 1,700 retail vendors and over 3,000 salespeople are waiting for you, the 白鬼子 (our nickname, we are the “white ghosts”). And as we walk through the narrow alleys, we are nicely asked to part with our Yuan.

Between 10pm and 5am, the city is alive and thriving. Night markets, busy streets, lights everywhere — life doesn’t stop in Beijing.

I was introduced to massage by my former boss in Hong Kong, Ning. Now don’t imagine inappropriate work incentives: Ning may have paid me a ridiculous wage and asked me to work on weekends too often, but he wasn’t this kind of man.