Ok, so another few days gone by and another blog post, this one from the wonderful big, bustling and busy metropolis that is Shanghai!!After a loo-oong night's train journey from Xi'an to Shanghai, where we discovered that soft sleepers are a fair bit more expensive than hard sleepers and not much more luxurious (they certainly didn't feel any softer on my poor back, and I definitely didn't sleep any better!), we pulled into Shanghai just after midday on Sunday 9...

Hello again from Xi'an, three days later and I'm doing another blog post...that's definitely progress!We are just in the hostel killing a little time before we get a taxi to the station to get Dico's for dinner (chinese version of McDonald's/KFC, although they have hundreds of both of those too, pretty much a KFC on every corner in Xi'an!) and board our soft sleeper for the 16 hour journey to Shanghai... So anyway, we got up bright and early on Thursday and head...

did say I would write more frequently, and it has been over a week…BUT!!I have managed to keep on top of my photo uploading, so that’s definitely got to count for something?!?!Anyway, I’ve got a bit to talk about as we left Hope on Sunday, and we’re now in Xian where the Terracotta Warriors are, so here goes… The rest of our time at Hope went in a bit of a blur, we took the kids for pre-school every day last week except Thursday, and we did lots of fun...

Hello strangers!! I know I've been fairly horrendous at blogging the last wee while (I was just re-reading my last blog, can't believe it was as long ago as 14 April- oops!!) and we've been to 2 different countries since my last one so there's a fair bit to catch up on!! So, after my last post we had our very last night in India- we had some amazing chicken reshmi kebabs in an interesting little Muslim restaurant, then had a quick freshen up in the YWCA bef...

Ok so back to blogging after quite a few days absence from writing anything proper!!Ok, so let's start from last Friday when we went to the slum children's charity Children Walking Tall (when we were still in Arambol).... We decided to go to visit for the day to see what it was all about as Jade had heard about the place from friends at home, and it was fairly near us (1 hour bus ride to Mapusa then another bus about 15 mins out of town). Firstly, we said goodby...