Hi folks, hope you are all well... Our final destination in China was Shanghai.  We took an overnight bus from Wuhan leaving behind the rain and praying for some sunny weather as we literally had no clean clothes left and desperately needed to do some washing plus I was sick of wearing our sexy cagooles!  The journey was better than expected as the coach had proper beds so we managed to catch a few zzzz's before arriving in Shanghai. We took a taxi from t...

Hi again folks, The third part of our journey started with another overnight sleeper train from Xi'an to Chengdu.  We've now mastered this train malarkey and learnt that it is definately best to be in the top cabin where we are hidden away!  The journey was fine and went relitavely quickly, the chinese were a lot friendler and a few chatted with us to try and practice their English.  One was telling me how he had a German friend who said all English peo...

.......The second part of our "experience" began with an 18 hour sleeper train from Bejing to Xi'an (pronounced Sheyuan).  Our initial thoughts were sheer horror!! It was like a prison cell with both of our beds being at the top of the train.  We had to share our 'cabin' with four Chinese people who had taken up all the luggage room therefore we had to sleep with our backpacks between our legs.  We soon realised however that we were fairly luck...

Hi everyone,After an emotional departure from Heathrow here we are in China and our first stop was Bejing.We were concerned that we would not even make it this far after we had some sort of chinese convict sitting in front of us on the plane handcuffed between two English police escorts and they kept trying to chat both of us up! Well we are pleased to say that he didn't try anything (and neither did the policemen) and we made it through the flight safe and s...