I think it is time to do something on my own. Since I have got to China I have not actually been on my own at all really. I think this has been causing an issue. So today I am heading out on my own, and I am excited. I have selected the Summer Palace, that is the area of choice. It is quite far away, though still in Beijing, it involves a couple of subways and about an hour of transport. I kind of have a cough now, my sniffles have subsided and I am ready for the...

Again with going out yesterday to the market it has really taken it out of me. I'm not feeling like doing anything to exhaustive today, I think really the only other thing I want to see in Beijing is the Summer Palace and seeing as I have an extra day here I will probably just do that tomorrow. I feel as though I have been sick ever since I got to China, which has sort of held me back when it comes to doing anything. Hopefully a night in a hard sleeper will sort ...

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 ...