Feeling a little better today, though i'm not too fussed about doing anything. I think I have decided on what i'm going to do. So I look in to what sort of a price it would be to get a train from Beijing to Xi'an, £26.50 for a 12 hour train for just shy of 700miles, I think that is a good deal. I have decided on the hard sleeper, i'll let you check that out online so you can see the luxury I have opted for. Not one for you mum. ----- Purple and I and another I...

I feel like absolute s*** today. Cold has set in full time, throat has closed over and I can't breath through my nose. I blame Purple as she had a cold when she came to the hostel and now she has kindly passed it on to me, how generous. ----- Today I am trying to decide what I should do in China, or should I even stay. When I planned to come here it was only for the great wall, I hadn't even looked at anything else. The plan was then to go straight to Vietnam a...

An early rise because today is wall day! After reviewing the many options I have decide to take a private taxi with Purple and James, it works out significantly more expensive, however for the convince and the comfort I have decided that, for the wall I will let this slide. It was £15 for a subway, bus, cable car to the wall, wall entry fee and toboggan down. The bus would also be about a 40min walk from the cable car. The taxi option works out at £30, and it ...

Meet downstairs for 10, get some breakfast which I am finding difficult to eat as I am still not feeling 100%. I manage most of it, then we head out to Tiananmen Square, which is just about a 10min walk from the hostel. It's a particularly good day today, blue skys and the sun is beating down. High 20s so a significant step down to what I have been used to, which is nice. As with everything in China, when we get to the entrance we have to go through security and ...

When I got in last night, there was someone sleeping in my bed. You can imagine the confusion as I stumble in drunk, to find a body in my bed. Luckily there was another bed free, so I just crawl in to that. Obviously some mix up with the bunks. ----- So I got woken up early by people leaving the room. So I was kinda up at 10, which was a pain in the ass, but what can you do. I wasn't a big fan of my new city yesterday. Different vibe about the place, people sta...