Hey I am back after being in the depths of deepest China...now in the sprawling metropolis of Hong Kong. Stage 2 Complete, Stage 3 of World Tour commences. Prior to this of course we flew from the cruise ship on the Yangtse to Gulin and on a bus to Yangshou. The bus journey alone was stunning. Yangshou is a small town in central south China. Quite popular with Tourists it still holds some of its cultural routes. Every where you look there are karsts (huge M...

So the Cruise. The Boat looked a little bit ghetto to me...however it was really nice, anmd bonus all meals included. Sweet. The weather this day was really really really hot...baking. So we checked into our rooms. And headed for an exploration. A bar, a top deck, two floors of rooms, pretty basic but thats all we needed really. Here the relaxing started. We had to sail through 4 locks...these are huge I mean locks that store 20 ships at a time. The reason fo...

We embarked on our non sleeper train to Loyang...I was with Marie...who I have nicknamed Pasty...she is the smallest white Irish girl I have ever met, fiesty and fun, Shinade her friend who reminds me of Erin, great girl though...really intellegent. Amarl and Jules who are just funny full stop and Paul (yoda). This includes the Indestructable sock lady....the funniest thing...She claimed they were indestructable. So we had to destroy them...It was like a s...

Hey Hey Ok so the adventure continues,we are now in Xi'an which used to be the capital of China in the Qui Dinisty period(2000ish years ago). The City is surrounded by a wall which we have just cycled around on Tandems...this was so cool, Me and Paul were on one, Matt and Claire another and Vimo and Armal on another. I have never read a tandem before and it was really funny. This city is not small either and we cycledall of it...Then had some noodlesmade for...

A NOTE TO LET YOU KNOW WHO IS ON TOUR. ME AND PAUL VIMO AND AMAL - TWO GUYS FROM NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY - REALLY GOOD GUYS DOCTORS. CLARE AND MATT - COUPLE FROM ESSEX...TRAVELLING THE WORLD TOGETHER - REALLY COOL YOUNG COUPLE. JULIE - 27ISH TEACHER FROM WIGAN - GOOD LAUGH SINEAD AND MARIA - TWO IRISH GIRLS...QUITE QUIET. PAUL AND MARY-ANN - 30 YR OLD COUPLE FROM BATH - QUITE COOL, VERY OUTDOORSY. ERICA, DAVE, AND MIMI - THE YANKS. NICE ENOUGH, MIM...