We arrived in Shenzhen at long last and it was interesting to see rain in China for a change. On the way, we noticed an increasing trend of buildings being built and scores of the rice fields. It looked like the south is trying to catch up with the northern China. This trend is followed in Shenzhen because there are so many building sites. Shenzhen amazingly enough contained about six theme parks including a cool one which is called Windows of World with all f...

This is going to be a short blog; yes I can hear you all readers cried "Why? your blogs is usually long and filled with humorous ancedatos,jokes and dodgy spellings" The reason is that I spent all of the day in my bed......in a train. Today was the day that we catch a train to Shenzhen which takes 21 hours so basically I spent the day doing Sudoku really slowly (shrieking kids, distraction of my friends conversation and rapid diminishing mathemical skills even...

We started the day with a meeting about booking a hostel in Shenzhen, our next stop. We booked it quickly enough and the boys headed out while the girls stayed in (Don't worry Peter, I locked Sara in her room to ensure her safety!) The girls stayed in because they wanted to save money for their trip to the circus later on. We went to Chinese Pavilion which is the scene of the architectural building for the World Expo, it were a stunning red beams stacked on ot...

Today was easily my favourite day in Shanghai, even more so in absence of that annoying boy that I mentioned yesterday... We had a slow start, mainly due to the irresistible force of the hostel lounge but we managed to shake the temptations off and went to Yuanyuan gardens and bazaar. Bazaar is a sprawling network of shops selling many different things and it were wonderfully because it captured the authenticity of China compared to skyscrapers of yesterday....

Before I start this entry, I would like to explain to my faithful readers that you may have noticed Sara and Ashley have posted pictures of themselves with each blog entry while I don't, this is due their iPhone having an official app of this website which mean they can upload pictures from their phone while I can't because no computers have a SD card slot which allow me upload pictures from the camera. Today, we are discovering Shanghai is more to our likin...