Shanghai Nights So we arrived at the train station in Beijing that Noel had told us to go to for the Bullet train. Unfortunately for everyone involved it wasn't the right station and after a frantic dash in a taxi we finally arrived at the right station and checked in. Chinese people treat long distance trains the same as planes so we had to be there an hour before and we had everything scanned and were patted down like criminals. Finally though we boarded the...

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...

Once again we hopped in the Delorean to do a bit of time travelling. This time our flight lasted 11 hours but we arrived in Hong Kong 7 hours after we left Auckland, oh the joys of time zones. Out in the airport we have a nerve racking wait for our bags as they literally were the last two bags on the carousel, by the time they came out everyone else on our flight had left the airport!!! We find our shuttle bus and we head off into the night to our hotel. We c...

November 8th- November 12th We've been very busy the last few days in Singapore, we packed our 4 day trip with a lot of activities, so this one will be long. Day 1- Still with us? Let's begin........The trip from Melaka to Singapore was quite short, the border crossing was easy and we found our way to our hostel via the underground. We were staying in an Australian ran hostel called the Prince of Wales. The dorm room we booked slept 24 people, we were lucky t...