Yes, the puns are continuing. Embrace it! I'll pick up where I left off: Day 3 (Wednesday 18th)We stayed up until everyone else woke up, and then it was off to the station to catch a train to the nearby ski resort of Yabuli. This took about 3 hours. I slept most of the way, but it was still pretty bad - absolutely packed, and the heating swung between roasting hot and Arctic*. We arrived at a little station in the middle of nowhere with absolutely no idea what t...

15/03/2013-20/03/2013 Every Chinese person I've ever mentioned Ha'erbin to has told me horror stories about the cold there and/or told me I'd be better off staying away because it's so cold and I'll die, so I'd mentally prepared myself for Arctic conditions and the likely loss of several fingers to frostbite. Turns out, everyone was being very dramatic and it wasn't that bad at all, so long as you layered up and kept moving. The night we arrived was -24ºc, prob...