When we had sat down to discuss and plan our around the World trip we'd dreamed of being in warm climates and on beaches for most of our time away. It had come as a bit of shock to both of us to arrive in Japan and China during their winters and that we'd spent the entirety of January freezing our asses off! The worst was due to arrive in Beijing. We'd been keeping tabs on the weather conditions and were marginally alarmed at the prospect of temperatures not ri...

We were really only in Shanghai as our entry point for China, so neither of us had any great interest in the city, especially as we'd just been in Tokyo and Hong Kong which have similar reputations. Again, we weren't interested in the shopping so that removed a lot of the things to do in Shanghai. Nonetheless we'd booked to stay two nights in Shanghai and after being couped up on a ferry for 2 days we were eager to explore. First night we walked along the Bund...