Hello people, shanghai is just huge buildings everywhere! it was a really nice place to stay for a few days but anymore than what i spent there i think you could get board, 4 days is enough. the first day i just wondered about the city, checking out the streets and see what was on offer there. in amungst all the huge buildings i managed to bump into yuyuan park which was pretty cool, and then i went to see the light of the bund in the evening which look...

Hey guys, As you probably know, i've had a load of problems with these s***e computers in china so i'm writing this post card about 2 weeks after leaving beijing, so i'll write what i can remember. After nearly missing the train from Ulaan Baatar to beijing after being so drunk i nearly slept in! if it wasn't for this english guy who was going with me to beijing i would have missed the train and would be in mongolia for another couple of days. saying go...

Hey guys, I've just left Beijing for Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia and i have to say that Beijing has been my favourite city i have been to yet on my travels. There is so much to see and do that 4 days was just not long enough there (we would have stayed longer but the train to Mongolia only leaves on a saturday and wednesday and our chinese visa has just about run out), so i'm going to come back into Beijing after Mongolia. The first day we went to Tianamen S...

Hi guys, Pingyao has been a quiet stop off before the hecticness that is to follow in Beijing, i'm getting the train tonight. Pingyao is a very old and beautiful city, but after seeing it in a day there's not much more to do. So as you can see we have filled our time by lazing around in the day and getting drunk out of our minds in the evening. Twice we were the last to leave the bar (including the bar staff), one time we were told to go to bed by the ...

Hello everyone, Just to let you know that i'm all better now after my little hospital visit, the lump on the side of my face has gone down after taking 15 pills a day for 4 days and not touching a drop of alcohol for a week! now i'm making a come back!! I have just visited Shaolin Si in the Henan provence to check out where the shaolin martial arts were developed by buddist monks. It was great! the place was so scenic, surrounded by mountains and away fro...