Nigel: We had already been to China before and our first destination in China, on our previous travel, was also Beijing. We wanted to return to see if/how much the city and the area we stayed in had changed. We booked the same hostel as previous to try and relive the experience. The hostel is situated in one of the several Hutong's in Beijing and the area has changed a lot. It has got more commercialised and there are many new shops plying their trade along t...

Hi AllHope everyone is ok and we hear that the weather has been really hot. This is what we have done so far...... The JourneyAlison: The journey was ok apart from the fact that I thought we were never going to get to Heathrow! We decided to travel via National Express but an hour in to the journey we were escorted from the motorway by police as the bus had a fault. After a long wait somewhere off the M1, a replacement bus finally arrived to save us. The flight w...