Ok I think this journal could be a little stop/start. I'm now on a train to Kunming after spending two nights in Yangshuo. Me, Matt J and Jonny arrived in Guilin from Changsha at 4am on the 2nd January. I managed to get my train ticket to Kunming (they weren't so lucky) then we waited for a while and found a McDonalds to hang out in until the buses to Yangshuo started at 8am. When we arrived at Yangshuo and checked into the hostel, first thing I did was have a ...

30th December I arrived in Changsha station very early. I'd never been before and it was not very nice compared to stations in other big cities, it looked like Yiyang! Lisa sorted me out with a taxi back to Yiyang <3 I put on a wash as soon as I arrived home then spent the rest of the day messing on the Internet or sitting in bed with my book because it was freezing! 31st December I woke up late and was still feeling cold and lazy. I eventually got moving i...

20th December 2009 I arrived in Shenzhen at 7am and started the intrepid journey to find Hong Kong. I kept walking and following some signs and after going up and down and around about 10 times I managed to fin passport control. I had an awful feeling just as I arrived that I would need a visa but luckily it was just me being paranoid! I went through one passport check, then a baggage check then another passport check and I was in Hong Kong! I found the train to...

Ok I'm going to try to catch up on my blog before I leave again on my travels, the last week of term became manic so I didn't have time before I went to Hong Kong! It was a while ago, but as far as I can remember, the rest of my exam week went pretty smoothly, Friday 12th December The day before, me and Rich had been asked to attend an English speaking competition to be judges. We tried to wangle our way out of it, but they had special invitations and we...

Oh dear I'm really behind on my blog! It's been pretty quiet though so it shouldn't take too long to catch up…. Thursday 20 Nov Not much happened for the remainder of this week. I had planned to go and visit Ruth and Martin in Huihua but after realizing how far it was on the train and looking at the amount of work I had to do I decided not to go. It was just as well because I had a bad cold that weekend and spent most of Saturday to Tuesday in my apar...