Meat off the street is bad. My enemy food poisoning made a return today. I only had it a few weeks ago but at least I was at home in my own bed, not in a noisy room, with a toilet not that nearby which I have to share with strangers. It must have been last night, so at least I could be sick and try and get it out of my system as quickly as possible. Either that or it came on so quickly because it's really bad. Ben seems fine and we ate the same last night so I'm ...

Today we managed to get up early and made our way to the terracotta warriors. We were naughty again and had KFC for breakfast but in our defence all the street stalls looked really dirty round there. And the noodle woman that I have had noodles from every single day since we've been here (they are so good!) wasn't by the hostel as we were out so early. Pit 1 where there are over 6,000 models was spectacular. It's amazing to see that they all had different faces a...

Well we managed to watch United and it was well worth it. We found the channel that had it on last time and could watch it live online on our phones. We slept this time and just set our alarms for kick off. What a game. V exciting and we played so well. Today we got up before 11 to say that we'd been up in the night. We did some washing (with a machine for once!) and planned to go up the city walls. We went up and you could hire a tandem so we did! It was lots o...

For our day of checking out and awaiting the overnight train to Xi'an, we killed some time by visiting the nearby Lama Temple. It had lots of Buddha's inside the numerous buildings, with monks in their robes wandering around and lots of people burning incense and offering it to the Buddha statues. One of the statues of a Buddha was something like 18m high, it was amazing! One was playing a guitar as well, which seemed a little strange! You couldn't take any pictu...