Hello everyone Im back and Im well.? After spending half of my time in Bangkok in bed, leaving Claire to roam the streets and update the blog and the photos on her own (sorry Claire) finally no more hangovers or sickness for me you'll be pleased to hear!!How are you all?Ok so we left Bangkok to set off for Chiang Mai on an overnight bus.? We arrived in Chaing Mai about 6.30am, I woke up to find Claire not in the seat next to me where I had left her when i doz...

We have now arrived in South East Asia and our first destination in Thailand, the capital city Bangkok.  We flew in from Hong Kong late on Thursday afternoon and the first thing to hit us was the heat...Now obviously being used to the tropical climate at home - not, the humidity really hit us as soon as we walked out of the pleasant air conditioned airport.  The weather was about 30 degrees and incrediably muggy.  We quickly got in a taxi to take us to o...

So, Hello Hong Kong........again for Me! but a new experience for Claire. Ok so Hong Kong is part of mainland China but is also made up of many different islands.  Hong Kong centre is actually Hong Kong Island, this is where we stayed. After a flight to Southern China and a long bus journey over the boarder to HK we arrived at our next destination.  We actually had to carry our backpacks for the longest time since coming away to get to our hostel.  Onc...

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...