6th September 2007 and we arrive in Guillin a small but pictureesque city seemingly in the middle of nowhere. Day one arriving shattered after a mammoth 26 hour train journey, most of it spent asleep although a small part was being spent sitting in the restaurant carriage watching the weird and quite disgusting habits of the workers eating. They put there food on the table clothes then the maides merely wipe off the big chunks of food and put another table cloth...

Hi all, Another day another city and today (3/9/07) was Shanghai. Very much a high rise city with the tallest building in Asia and the one being built right next door to it is already taller and has at leat another 50 floors to go. Anyways we arrived at the hostel which was down some back alley somewhere and took a stroll to an over hyped museum (the best in China it was claimed) I wasn't particularly impressed but then i'm not really a big museum fan. Now woul...

Hi all, sorry for being so slow at updating but here you go. Our first day Xi'an (30th August 2007) much like everywhere else was raining. We seem to take the Guernsey weather with us. Oh and I should point out that we've picked two english lads John Burrows ( aka diarreha - he seemed to have it the whole time and Charles Leeming aka Choice Lee Ming - the chinese can't say Charles). Anyways when we all awoke the next morning Choice had a slight case of bed bugs ...

Spent 3 days here in Beijing, with our first experience being instantly getting fleeced by the local tuk tuk cyclist fella (1 of many to come). Not only did he take us to the wrong hostel but it quite drastically overcharged us. It only took a further 4 hours to find our hostel which was a good 5km away. Next day we took in the local sites of Tian'amen square/forbidden city, temple of heaven, before having a few drinks with the fellow travellers. Next day was the...