Wonderful to see some pics now and on your birthday as well! Hope Isey has made sure you enjoyed your special day, and great to see you both at last! Enjoy the 'on your own again' bit to Kunming and beyond. Lol Mum

Dave - wishing you (rather late, its 5th Feb where you are!) a very happy birthday indeed. Thanks so much for your blogs; you are an excellent tour guide and paint a vivid picture of all the wonderful places you are visiting.

All best wishes

Rob

Wow - great photos! Sorry not to have posted before now. We thought it was cold here but Harbin must've been something else! Trip sounds wonderful (and I don't mean the "carefully slip" - that's what we do on a Friday after a good bottle of wine... My father did Xian many years ago and it was mind boggling; China is fascinating. Tsingtao brings back happy memories of Hong Kong - have a couple for us!! Happy birthday!!!! LOL Genny & Andrew xx

You missed my birthday drinks you inconsiderate pair!

Really enjoying your blogs. The weather has been so life stoppingly naff over here that a little bit of escapism is always welcome.

Glad you're having so much fun and I can't wait to see your photos.

Max

Great to get blogged! Really hope the tour is giving you yet more sights and sounds of such a huge country, not to mention the food............just try and eat less dumplings......don't want you to look like them by the time you leave HK!! All love to both xx

Delighted to hear all your news in the latest blog - looking forward to seeing photos though appreciate that may not be until HK! Must be fabulous to have someone else doing the organising for a while. What a fabulous trip! LOL Lx

Glad you hear you guys are having fun and keeping safe. Miss you loads already. I can't stop checking this blinking thing even though I know I'll get an email update when either of you have updated it! I keep thinking I'll beat it to it.

Give each other big hugs from me x x x

Hope you are enjoying the ice festival up in Harbin. Looking forward to seeing the photos. Hope the beard is doing its job and keeping out the cold!

Glad to know you got there safely and that you're already enjoying yourselves. As your Mum says we're freezing too (-13 in Cheshire today - coldest place in England!). Have fun and keep us posted

Sounds as if you have got off to a great start. Just back from Devon at the start of my travelling year! Looking forward to seeing lots of photos from Beijing & Harbin. Keep warm :-)

You're not the only ones in snow, you know!! Virtually the whole of the uk is under snow and temperatures -3 to -17 and even -20 in the north! Hope you enjoy the Ice Festival - get some good photos !

Yay I'm the 1st person to send a message!! Hope your flight goes as planned (you should be on it right now...) - your beard should keep you warm when you get there anyway! have fun! xxx