After an 13 hour train journey in a cattle carriage we have arrived in Xi'an safely. We were greeted by possibly the nicest taxi driver ever...NOT and the worst pollution. Matt spent most of yesterday walking round Xi'an trying to get bus tickets to Shanghai as we found out when we arrived that the train tickets need to be booked 10 days in advance and we leave in 3 days. After a brief walk through a red light district and seeing the majority of Xi'an in the 5...

Hi everyone, sorry it has taken so long for us to come back online and write the rest of the blog but we have just been mega busy. This one will be a long one but i promise we will update more often so it isn't like reading 'War & Peace.' (Rach Stott try not to fall asleep like when i'm telling one of my stories! ha ha!) So since the last blog... Tuesday Night We went to the Schezuan Government Building were they make traditional Schezuan food for travelle...

Hello one and all, Just a quick note to say we are all safe and sound and a new blog will be comings soon (hopefully tomorrow). Take it easy

Hi Everyone, So this is the first blog for Beijing and its been an eventful couple of days so far!! After our nine hour flight and managing to watch about 4 films we finally arrived in Beijing, we got into a taxi to take us to the hostel and when we showed the taxi driver the chinese address it didnt look like he recognised it at all but we he got us there (the drivers in China are all off their rockers!) We arrived at the hostel and had about an hour until w...

Hi Everyone, So this is the first blog for Beijing and its been an eventful couple of days so far!! After our nine hour flight and managing to watch about 4 films we finally arrived in Beijing, we got into a taxi to take us to the hostel and when we showed the taxi driver the chinese address it didnt look like he recognised it at all but we he got us there (the drivers in China are all off their rockers!) We arrived at the hostel and had about an hour until w...