Heres Joe's latest on our travel preps:

Went through to Manchester on Thursday and had some trouble finding the embassy went miles out to find that we were only round the corner from it in the first place considering we were in China town. Beckys looking for some crayons to write her part of the blog just now.

Beckys version of events:

Well if you havent already fallen asleep by Joes boring crap Im gonna start my blog with "It was Thursday the 5h of August 2010 it was a mild summers day we started our day at 10:00 am precisely, we went to catch the train at 11:11am.....it was on time YAY!. We got of the train at Manchester Oxford street we started the day by hunting down a pharmacy to take our photos. We then thought to continue with a weatherspoons brunch I had a Ham sandwich Joe decided on a Tuna sandwich and he forgot the chips silly billy! Bev also had a Tuna baguette and remembered the chips HA! After we finished there we grabbed a cab and asked the driver to take us to the Chinese Embassy and youll never guess what?..... He took us out of the city centre to the chinese Consulate and drove off. At this point we were stuck outside the consulate wondering wether we would ever attend the Embassy on time. After managing to flag another taxi to take us to the right place ONLY! to find out it was right round the corner from where we were having brunch HA HA HA!. It was an eventful day which we ended with a good piss up with Carl Bev and Vicky. And the rest i have no recollection of. THE END