The Gardeners' World Blog

Inside Sport is back and we’re doing something we’ve never done before by going overseas to kick off the new series with Gabby, Matt Pinsent and Dame Tanni Grey Thompson in Beijing for a special Olympic programme.

We’re in the process of stitching all the different pieces together in the edit suites as I write this but already I can see just what a surprising place Beijing is.

We’ve all seen pictures of the Forbidden City, the Great Wall and the exotic food – Tanni ate scorpions from one street food stall - but there are also amazing new skyscrapers, millions of cars instead of bikes and, just like any British city, a chain of pizza restaurants.