Charlie here. Having had only a small editorial role on our previous blogs, I thought it was high time to switch roles and write one. So here is our 3 day trip Beijing to Kobe .... I was gutted. I had sneaked out of our room in Lucy's house at 6:30am to go and watch the tai chi in the park, and I stepped outside into a wall of strong wind - stronger than I had felt for ages. This was worst case scenario. We were going to be on a ferry for the next two days, p...

Just a quick warning - this is going to be a long one! After 9 days in the Chinese capital, there's so much to write about and i'm not sure where to cut it down. So, in the words of Winston Churchill, I'm going to write a long one in the absence of time to write a short one.... Stay with me! We made it into Chinese territory on Friday 29th October (I have to write this down as it has already got to the stage where we don't know what day of the week it is, which ...