So we are Sydney and after a bit of faff with finding the hostel we have settled quite well. In a room with 4 others. We went out last night and sampled the delights of the Sydney nightlife. Currently planning to stay for a few days then look at the options. Sydney is expensive so we don't want to spend a great deal of time here. Sydney is different to what I expected. The weather is good, warm but not too hot. We went to the Opera house yesterday and walked aro...

WRITTEN IN RETROSPECT Sunday 24th We took the night train from Beijing to Shanghai last night. This is know as a soft sleeper due to the fact that it has four beds per compartment instead of six! Luckily Lucy and I were grouped with an elderly man and a young woman and her very cute little child. This sort of train is fairly new to China and goes at high speed, so a journey that should have taken 26hours, took us 10! We prefer Shanghai to Beijing. It's more ac...

ello peeps! Well today has been a very adventurous day! Lou and I managed to book tour of The Great Wall late last nigt and were picked up this morning by our tour guide and private taxi. We were then expecting to be driven to a mini bus to meet other people also taking the tour.......WE WERE IT! So today we have been driven around Beijing in our own private car with tour guide. We booked on-line and paid 320 currency which works out at sixten british pounds eac...

Hellooooooo! We're here!!!!Been quite an adventure already! :S Been up for about twenty three hours now and its only 3pm here in Beijing. Flight was LONG!!! Even though we took sleeping tablets we didn't get much sleep as a man kept snorting on the seat next to us! Managed to get through the temperature scanners at the airport ok - although EVERYONE is wearing masks!!! Got on a local bus for about an hour to the centre of Beijing and made it to the CRAZY train st...

Well Hello there!!! Welcome to Lou and Vicki's exciting online diary for our up and coming adventures :) We're still in the mad planning stages at the mo, but the list is getting slightly shorter and we are almost ready for the off now :) All jabs have been done (apart from a final swine flu one so we don't get put in quarantine in China for a couple of years!). Malaria tablets are being ordered and passports have FINALLY been returned with our pretty visas in :...