We managed to wake up around 11:00am, which isn't too bad considering we'd been on a train for 21hrs and managed 45mins sleep. Not knowing a great deal about Xi'an, we decided to make our way to the history museum and Small Wild Goose Pagoda . It was definitely worthwhile and gave us a chance to understand Xi'an and how prominent it has been in China's history. On our way to the Small White Goose Pagoda, we had a few superstar moments, with a people coming up to ...

This snooze button is gonna get us into trouble one day! We planned on waking up at 7:00am but I pressed the snooze button on my mobile and the next thing I remember, it's 08:00am. We practically ran out of the hostel and dived on the underground to shanghai station. We actually made good time and had 30mins to spare but we took the wrong turning out of the subway. 20 mins later and with people pointing us in several directions we felt like we were going round in...

Having pretty much seen all the sights that Shanghai had to offer and feeling the effect's from two night's partying, we decided to have a lazy day at the hostel. Late afternoon, Tom, Steve and I talked about going to the park on numerous occasions, but only managed to make it out of the hostel, 30mnis before sunset. In an act of true stubbornness, we carried on playing for a good hour. Although we couldn't actually have a decent kick around, it was just nice h...

We had made plans to visit a water village in Zhou Zhuang, but the 7am start proved to be a major sticky major hurdle and those Cheeky tequila's meant we didn't rise until 10:00am, by which the last boat of the day had set sail. Our new Eee PC's had certainly made an impression with our new friends, and we found ourselves, Holly, Kate, Tom, Steve and I making a trip back to Xu Jia Hui and haggling over two more ASUS laptops . After lunch, wh then made our way t...

Having spent a lot of time on the Internet and meeting a few travelers who had traveled with laptops, I asked reception where the best place in Shanghai would be for electronics. They recommended visiting the technology market in Xu Jia Hui,so off we went to see if any bargains could be made. This so called 'Market' turned out to be a 7 story building with computers and gadgets galore, had Steve not been there, I could have easily spent my entire budget! We enter...