hello all it's us here, we are still here, we are still alive although skiv is on his death bed a little bit. and joe is on the toilet...lots. we went to visit the terracotta warriors today, they were awsome. we are stuck in xian untill 21st which is spiffing :) as there are no trains and the soonest and most affordable flight is not till then. we have discovered the muslim quarter, which sells lots of yummy foods you can have a tea and a desert for three yu...

Hello this is grumopy jess here, Joe is extremely grumpy because of the whole green tea spitting incident. and because of his 5th bout of explosive diahorrea today. which we have all hered about in great detail which is nice, also the whole rip off the white people thing is getting annoying hee hee. but appart from that we are all fine and the hostel is really nice. however we are very grumpy and will probably get into a fight by the end of the day hurah!!...

Well, What a two days we've just had! We left the Leo hostel about 3.15pm on friday to get to a huge set of office blocks where our friend Terry Ting works who helped us book the train tickets. We knew the way but were too tired to notice the taxi driver was taking us for a ride, so we went the roundabout way there, but only paid about 4 extra Yuan, so we wernt too fussed. However, we didnt know this would just be the start of our troubles. Ill give you the...

well this is the trip from a girl's point of view. it has been amazing so far and i don't snor the boys are lying and all they want to talk about is poo, and when people poo, and other things that i won't mention lol. This is when i have quiet time and block out most of the conversation because i am a lady. The boys buy me shiny things from timre to timr to keep me quite. it's good hee hee. we have discovered the most extreme card game ever!!!! called cups (...

Well we have done a hell of a lot over the last few days. We went to the forbidden city, which actually wasnt that good :S it was worth seeing tho. kinda dissapointed that there was actually a starbucks in the forbidden city!!! We also got up really early (6am) and went to the temple of heaven to watch the old people do tai chi and sword fighting and stuff, was amazing! Its been so hot the last few days, our pasty white british body's cant handle it. Oh i for...