A few days into our Chengdu stay, Az and I went to meet chinese at the hemp house reggae bar (pretty much our local now!) for a few beers and a catch up, its only 10 minutes and 12kwai (£1.20) in a taxi away. After a couple of drinks and the usual arabic banter she asked if we were hungry, we had eacten just before coming out so said no and returned the question; 'no, not really. so lets go get some BBQ food...' haah in true chinese style! For some reason they e...

It's a sad day........ The original source mint shower gel has finally run out........ Haha time for some funky smelling chinalized stuff, it's just not gonna be the same! Good to speak to you all earlier, off to bed now as got to get up early to catch the fish in the morning :) happy days Xxx

Another 19hour hard sleeper took us all the way to Chengdu, not nearly as bad this time though, we knew what to expect, booked a night journey so we could spend the majority of the time asleep and took supplies of noodles and drinks to tide us over! We were booked into the 'lazy bones' hostel, a lovely central hostel with a little outdoor courtyard area and the nicest rooms we have stayed in yet (every dorm has an en-suite and curtains around the bunks) and bum...

just a a quick update as got some good(ish) wifi for a bit, in Chengdu now and loving it, the weathers really bad and got loads of rain, not conveniant when ive got me washing hanging outside! haha went to see the pandas yesterday with our own presonal tour guide, a chinese girl we met at a bar the night before and she also took us out for a hot pot, reknowned all over china and the local delicacy,some say the best food in china as were also in the sechuan provin...