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 famous landmarks such as Eiffel Tower built at one third scale of the original building.

We grabbed a taxi to the hostel and it turned out be bit isolated but it is still a respectable hostel with lovely rooms and private showers (Hooray!) we got out to explore the neighbourhood, it is so quiet even when we found a mall, it is very densely populated with very few shoppers but they all suddenly came crawling out of the woodwork to stare when Charlene set off the security alarm!!

In the evening we went to a restaurant that actually contains an English translation for the menu much to our collective delights. It was very posh and the food was quite good but not a notch on the local Chinese takeaway back in Leicester!

En-route the hostel, Dominic living up to his Calamity James nickname ( he just accidently kicked over a poster five minutes ago and knocked over my pen) accidently stepped in a deep puddle, unfortunately his instant reaction were to leap out in the shock and leaped into another puddle. Very enjoyable to watch!

In the hostel as I write this, there are few nightclubbers going upstairs to a built in nightclub which I suddenly realised having a free internet is a bad idea because there is going to be few drunken statues updates on Facebook tonight....Not by me because even since we started travelling we realised constantly purchasing pints and going out is expensive so travelling is doing wonders for my liver and my thighs from the constant walking!