21st October 2010 So yeah.... i mentioned the cockroach before. Weellll.... Tuesday Morning at about 1am I got up to use the bathroom. Half asleep I pushed upon the door and went to sit down on the loo. Luckily....before I sat I noticed the biggest grossest bug I have ever seen in my life crawling around the toilet seat- it was a frickin cockroach. I panicked, screamed, took a picture (had to make sure you guys get in on the action!) then ran away to get Ric...

Beijing Blues Hey guys, so as you can probably figure from the title... I am not a fan of Beijing. We have come across some really lovely people (particularly at the hotel) however, the people that will forever stay in our memories from our 1 day in Beijing are ones that I would actually really rather never have met. The first was a poor dude with ugly shoes who caught us in a moment of need. We had just come out from visiting the Forbidden City which was p...

20th October 2010 Ni Hao Guiyang!! We are now in Guiyang, Guizhou, south west China, our home for the next year. Flying in to land we were amazed by the scenery. There were mountains everywhere and it looked more like Brazil than China.... had our 12 year old pilot taken a detour??? Nope... we were in Guiyang. Rich was convinced that our plane was going to crash into a mountain... although we came freakishly close we landed safetly and were promptly met...