hello all! been busy, busy, busy here in beijing so will try sum it up very quickly before i head to the train station to catch my 12 hour overnight train to pingyao! so excited about the train! i've joined up with my tour now, which started on sunday. everyone is really nice and friendly and our tour guide wendy is brilliant. i like talking to her and finding out more about chinese culture. she was saying how she was only allowed to have one child because of t...

so i have had an interesting couple of days here in beijing. i'm almost used to the chinese people starting at me because i'm white and asking to take photos of me, i'm also used to them constantly spitting in the street ... and in the subway, and also used to seeing babies with trousers with open backs so they can just poo where-ever they are! china is a big culture shock ... but i love it! on thursday i decided to go for a wander around the area where my host...

hello all! so i've arrived safe in china after a very turbulance filled flight in which i was thinking we were going to crash! there were people on the flight with masks on to stop them getting swine flu and was the same at the airport. thankfully my temperature wasn't too high and so i didn't need to get quarantined! the man that picked me up at the airport was really cute but he did not speak one word of english, but kept attempting conversation and offering m...