Guilin, the hick town of China, or that was what it seemed when we arrived there! It was a small station in the middle of a small town! It was a hell a lot hotter than anything we had experienced before hand! The train journey had been hell. John wasn't feeling very well and we were constantly worried he was going to be sick in the bunk! We had no food and no water, it was hellish Anyway we arrived at our hostel to discover that we were in an already filling r...

We arrived into Shanghai after what seemed like an eternity on a train! 26 hours to be precise! If you know me well, which most of you will, I have a trouble keeping still! However little sleep from the night before had done me proud and I managed to sleep most of the way! Result! Anyway we arrived in at about 11 in the morning and got a taxi to our pre booked hostel called the Ming Town place. It was situated in a small alley way that from the outside did not...

We arrived into Xian after a grueling 12 hour train ride from Beijing, We had booked soft sleeper train tickets which basically meant that we had the best seats on the train. We had met a couple of lads from Bolton. Charles and Jon! Who would imagine that the only westerners would be clumped in a compartment together for 12 hours! On the train we had a couple of beers and played some cards and before we knew it we were arriving into Xian. It was awful weathe...

Ok, since my last blog entry we were just about to set off on a trek of the Great Wall. I didn't really enjoy Beijing up until the night before the walk. Mostly because we hadn't been staying in a particulary nice area. But it was beginning to grow on me. We were staying in an authentic part of town, we were mixing with the locals and I was loving it. We had done a lot of walking in Beijing, mainly because no one speaks any english and the cab drivers are absolut...

Greetings from Beijing Just thought i would let you know what we have been up to..... we arrived on the sunday at about 9.40 after a brilliant flight with BA. basically the whole plane was empty so we could sprawl out over 3/4 seats! it was awesome. food on the plane was pretty sweet as well. Well we arrived and got on the bus to take us to Beijing Central station where we were enticed to get on a rickshaw (or however it is spelt). The cheekly little chi...