Good afternoon from Shanghai! It's 2:39pm and we are currently sailing along the Yangtze River looking out to the incredible skyline of The Bund and Downtown Shanghai! The sun is shining, tower blocks glistening and somehow we have managed to end up on a posh yacht with 2 other guys. This is the life! Last night we arrived at Shanghai airport later than planned and although we had booked a night in the Mercure Airport Hotel, we landed at T1 and the hotel was a...

Good morning, Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, the place where dreams are made. As we sit having breakfast/lunch (it was impossible to find breakfast again today!) the sun is shining and we have had another amazing morning! Panda hunting has been great but first, a few words about yesterday. We had a really early start leaving our hostel in Xi'an at 5:00am! After a daunting taxi ride to the airport we managed to check in fine and found a croissant...

Good evening! It's 8:21pm and we are currently sat amongst thousands of Chinese people waiting for the Xi'an Fountain, light and sound show to start! The sun is setting and the Big Goose Pagoda looks majestic in the distance. Today we decided to go it alone and visit the eighth wonder of the world without a tour. After a leisurely start we headed to the bus station via McDonalds for breakfast! Finding any kind of food other than Western fast food is proving t...

Hello from Xi'an! We've made it to our next stop in China after nearly 6 hours on a train although it wasn't as bad as it sounds! After an early start and a breakfast pack in our hands, we got a taxi to the train station in Beijing and made it to our waiting room smoothly without any hitches. We were advised to get there early, hence the early start but really didn't need to be as we'd already booked the tickets and there were no queues. It was quite a nice mor...

Hello! Hello, from on The Great Wall of China!! It's 1:31pm and we are just about to exit the wall and head down for lunch! Our legs are like jelly but it's been incredible! Write more later :) Good evening... it's now 8:04pm and Tara and I are sat in our very own little Courtyard on a garden swing, there is no place I'd rather be :) What a day we have had! At 6:30am my alarm for school went off as I had forgotten to turn it off, I quickly turned it off and n...