Go to your room - Yangtse tour 14th-17th aprilSo i fall out of my bunk in a trance, to see a heard of people running up and down the hall as if they had been paid a million pound each to act out the titanic scenes. (when it had crashed, obviously)Turns out they had tannoyed that breakfast was being served.The bloke in the room with me holds my hand (no, don't worry, they do that alot) and takes me to the monkeys tea party that is chock a block. he wanders from ta...

Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.......Yichang 14th AprilSo i will allow you a brief glimpse in to the mind of genius.................(as in me)i had decided i wanted to see the 3 gorges dam, and then to cruise along the Yangtze, which was in the direction of my next stop, so it all fitted in rather well.the cruises run from Chongqing to Yichang, and vice versa, as obviously the ships have to get back.Speaking to other people who had been, there were many factors...

Xi'an 10th AprilThe train got in at 7am and someone collected me from the hostel. I was cream crackered as i had hardly slept much on the train, but did not want to disturb the other people in my dorm, so hung around til lunchtime and then met some guys that were going to see the terracotta army so tagged along with them.Only problem was it was absolutely throwing it down, so after careful consultation of the lonely planet as to alternative points of historical ...

The Alan Partridge Incident So here i am at Beijing train station to catch the overnight train, and i dash in to the shop there to get some supplies for the evening, as the only beer on the train is warm and overpriced.as i have previously mentioned, because labour is so cheap, all the stores have tons of staff.so anyway, being the gorgeous charming westerner that i am, i always attract their attention and i was looking for some cold beer. once again having mad...

Beijing and the sex shop Photos March 7thThis town is absolutely choked with pollution, i can not believe it, it is so hazy with smog. On top of that they are also rebuilding everything within eyesight of the games so there is also dust from all the building work as well.Tiananmen square is huge and really impressive, and you can really feel the communist control. Add on top of that all the protests with Tibet and the Olympics, and a huge mistrust of foreigners,...