Okay. A few things to say this time, but nothing particularly exciting! My computer in the flat keeps getting viruses (they keep coming to fix them, but never actually put a firewall on the computer!) so if i'm not in touch much, that's why. Secondly, me and joe have split up. It's between me and him, but i thought that some of you might want to know. Thirdly, i'm almost certainly not coming back until June! I should be talking to someone about...

Hellllloooooooo! i know its been a long time, but here is the end to my holiday stories (i'm sure u've all been waiting in huge anticipation!) right, i'd got to that night in Zhongdian. The next morning we got up kinda late. I had an amazing shower lol. Then we sat talking to an english woman for a little while, some people went to get tickets for our bus trip back to lijiang (we'd intended to go up towards deqin, but everything was 6 ho...

hello everyone!!! I am back from my holiday now! we had a week off to have as much fun as possible... and me and rom ended up travelling 700km and back! woop! but it was ok, cos we got to go to tibet and do some really bloody fantastic things. We started out in kunming- its pretty much a typical big chinese city, perhaps a little more laid back, but it felt pretty overwhelming after the unending small town friendliness of simao. searched everywhere for shoes...

hello everyone!!! I am back from my holiday now! we had a week off to have as much fun as possible... and me and rom ended up travelling 700km and back! woop! but it was ok, cos we got to go to tibet and do some really bloody fantastic things. We started out in kunming- its pretty much a typical big chinese city, perhaps a little more laid back, but it felt pretty overwhelming after the unending small town friendliness of simao. searched everywhere for shoes...

Okay, guys, this has to be quick! so, im in kunming, the capital of yunnan province as it is now our weeks holiday- china national day is tomoro then it is moon cake day on friday! our plan is to have fun here tonite, and leave on the overnight bus tomoro for a place called lijiang (further north) which is sposed to be cool and then head to the tibetan area of yunnan! after that we'll be doing an 18 mile trek (lol!) over 1 of the deepest gorges in the world! So i...