Decathlon

Today Alice wanted to go to Decathlon. According to the Insider's guide we had to get to Guomao station and get a shuttle. Easy! Except once we got to Guomao there was no obvious sign of the shuttle none we asked knew. We didn't want to waste more time searching so we grabbed a taxi and showed the driver the address. He didn't look very confident about it but said ok. Then started a journey that took us back almost where we started in the north east of Beijing (Guomao is in the south east). At some point he stopped to ask people his way and no one had any idea where it was. Of course no Decathlon at sight. Alice ended up calling the shop, fighting to get someone who spoke English on the phone, so we could hear that the address in the guide was wrong! Luckily someone could explain the driver how to get to the nearest Decathlon (as they have 3 in Beijing) where he took us, back all the way further south from where this all trip started!
2 hours after we left Somerset we finally made it to the shop and bought some sport clothes, including some baby ones for Andrea and Bert's baby to come.
Amazing how a simple trip to a shop can become a journey through the city. Well, that's Beijing!