Hi all,

Well tonight is our last in Australia. We are flying to Hong Kong at 08h55 tomorrow am and then on to Beijing. We will be on a tour for the next 12 days.

Our itinery takes us on a quick highlights tour of China. Check out: http://www.intrepidtravel.com/trips/CKB - which will give you the full itinery of what we plan to see and do.

On advice we have just bought a Mandarin phrase book. I have been frightened off by the first page - so there go the dreams of managing broken Chinese conversations! (ha ha) - atleast we can point to the Chinese phrase in the book now!

We have really had a fantastic time in Oz, and will be sorry to leave.

Hopefully we will find time/place to update you on our Chinese progress.

x B&G