With decidedly rose-timted glasses affecting our judgement we'd come to the conclusion that climbing a mountain had been such fun that we wanted to do another, bigger one. Therefore the task awaiting us for the next couple of days was to climb Emei Shan, a 3,099 metre peak considered one of China's four buddhist holy peaks. After a big Western breakfast (you can't climb a mountain on noodles alone dammit!) we hailed a taxi to take us to the bus station for the bu...

With decidedly rose-timted glasses affecting our judgement we'd come to the conclusion that climbing a mountain had been such fun that we wanted to do another, bigger one. Therefore the task awaiting us for the next couple of days was to climb Emei Shan, a 3,099 metre peak considered one of China's four buddhist holy peaks. After a big Western breakfast (you can't climb a mountain on noodles alone dammit!) we hailed a taxi to take us to the bus station for the bu...

It was another early start for us and one we almost missed as both of us were on our way to falling back to sleep after the alarm when Dave realised what was happening and leapt from his bed to wake me up. We hurriedly dressed and headed down to the awaiting minibus where I found that due to our snoozing and an 'administrative error' I had no seat and spent the journey wedged in the doorwell praying that the lock would hold and I wouldn't be pitched out into onco...

We got up early to return to the familiar routine of packing our rucksacks up and checking out. After bidding to farewell to Alan and wishing him luck for his 17 hour train back to Guangdong we went round the corner to have the first meal as just a twosome in 4 days. We looked at the handy, though slightly blurred pictures on the menu and ordered what we thought looked like a beef dish and some duck breasts. The waitress happily took our order and toddled off to ...

Our morning was spent watching highlights from the Grands Prix and Champions League while desperately filling our bodies with liquids to revive them. By around noon this was finally accomplished and we headed out for some lunch. We headed to a restaurant specialising in Western Chinese cuisine and happily discovered that 'Toothpick' dishes are far tamer away from the West and happily filled our bellies. Dave and Alan headed out for presents for Jo while I headed ...