Hello everybody, Oh yes. Yes, yes, bloody yes. Why on earth didn't we stay here for 5 weeks? This place is beautiful. It's a small village about an hour south from Guilin. Backpackers everywhere (we haven't really seen a white face for 4 weeks) so we don't get ALL the stares! It’s surrounded by gorgeous green peeks and mountains. This is finally it. We have such an amazing room with (wait for it) soft beds. China has a thing about rock hard...

Hello everyone, We're now in Guilin. The flight here only took 2 hours. Really quick which was good and had dinner as well. Guilin is a small'ish town. Only takes about 30mins to walk round. It’s nice with a main road full of big shops and on the other end there are some gorgeous little back streets, market style. We went to 'Reed Flute Cave'. It’s a huge cave with rooms and passage ways here there and everywhere. It has little walk wa...

Ni hao (Hello) everyone, We're in Xi'an now and after such an amazing time in Beijing we didn't think anything could top it. However, Xi'an came pretty close. Its really lovely here and even a bit more traditional than Beijing! The only small problem is that its really, very, stupidly cold :o( But apart from that, all is great :o) The first day we got here we just did the normal of just bumming around town to see whats about. The whole city is i...

Well hello everyone.We are having such a great time now in Beijing compared to Shanghai. Beijing is such a beautiful city and there's a lot to do and see here. First of all want to say that Darren got some very bad news from home during our time in Beijing. It certainly made us realise that reality is just around the corner and we felt we were a million miles from home. To whom this concerns we love you very dearly and you are both always in our thoughts :o) ...

Hello everyone, We are now in Shanghai. Its been a rollercoaster of events here since we arrived. Shanghai is a lovely place but the people are so rude. We arrived on Wednesday evening and couldn't book into our hostel due to it being full. How can it be though as its the middle of winter the low season and they have over 400 rooms. We were given directions to find a new hotel which once we found it was nice and warm, very much like our Travel Lodges. That w...