Beijing Part Deux The night train!! Wow what an experience. We genuinely watched a women eat her entire body weight in seeds. She'd bite the shell off first and then eat the seed, by the end she had disappeared under all the shells it was truly strange, but she seemed happy with life. So we were on the night train heading hundreds of miles away from the city to one of the remotest parts of China, Xi'an. We were heading to Xi'an to visit the legendary Terracot...

Beijing part une Hong Kong to Beijing was a short uneventful flight that had a nice little surprise at the end. We picked up the surprise and headed into Beijing centre by train to go and meet the wisest of the Griffin clan, Declan's brother Noel. Noel had been living in China for a few years working for an IT firm, he and Declan hadn't seen each other for nearly two years so a nice little drink was in order. Having found our way into Beijing on the relativel...