Hello everyone! Firstly apologies about the email hacking disaster! Why I seem to attract all forms of technology related disasters is beyond me. My phone and camera have not yet turned against me but there is still time. When I found out I did change my password and I thought everything was sorted. Weirdly though I was getting very few emails. After not hearing from my parents for nearly three weeks I thought that this was perhaps taking out of sight ou...

During our few days in Beijing we met out new tour group and visited the Forbidden City (in the photo) and Tiananmen Square and the Temple of heaven. We spent a lot of time eating at great restaurants and walking through some of the lovely parks. We did give in and have a couple of starbucks coffee though! We passed on the deep fried scorpions - they were pierced on sticks and still wriggling about waiting to be fried. I never would have imagined myself sy...

Sorry for the silence, not the best internet access in Mongolia! After finishing sight seeing in Moscow we stocked up on food for our trans siberian train journey and then struggled onto the train. Waddling along with my huge rucksack and day bag and food and drink for 5 days was an interesting experience. It certainly made me seriously reconsider the necessity of all those lonely planet books! We were really lucky on the train as our tour group were th...