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Hi all!
Sooo...not so much to tell so far, we couchsurfed with a lovely couple in Beijing, but we didnt get on with the city, very smoggy and smelly and not that interesting. We were quite surprised by how undeveloped it was - we both expected it to be in league with london, when actually it was more like india - manic roads and no sewage system or drinking water etc. Food was lovely tho! We went to see the great wall, but it was very foggy so we only saw a bit of it, Lol.
We then got a night train to Xi'an (pronounced shee-an) which was much nicer, (the night train wasn't much fun as we didnt manage to get beds, so we were sat up all night!! ) but the town was pretty and had some lovely little stalls (see pic) - mike bought some posh chopsticks!
We then got another night train last night and are now in Chengdu (I made a bit of a schoolboy error this morning, woke up groggy dying for a drink, bought what looked like a can of diet coke off the train trolley...turned out to be a can of beer! Not what you want first thing! lol.) Chengdu seeems to be a lot more laid back than the lst places, we havent been hassled once! (Still get stared at lots tho!) But looking forward to chilling out here for a few days.
Anyway, offf to see pandas soon, so will hopefully have more interesting tales for next blog!
Hope you're all well, love Hellie & Mike xx
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