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...

Hello everyone. Before we start we have updated the Cape Town journal as we forgot to add a day. Its about the Cape Pennisula Tour. Well we are now in Hong Kong. The flight over here was amazing but long. We flew with Singapore Airlines which had amazing leg room and really comfy seats which reclined quite far back. The flight was 16hours in total as we had to change at Singapore and then fly to Hong Kong. We each had our own TV and remote control and could wat...

Hello everyone. Well we are now in Hogsback after spending one night in P.E as a stop over for the Baz Bus. We stayed in Lungile backpackers where we had stayed before over nearly 3 weeks ago. And get this, the manager remembered our names from before. Hogsback is 2 hours North from East London in the mountains. Its an amazing place with lots of forests and mountains. Hogsback is so called due to its 3 mountains which all have stumps on them hence it looks like a...

Hello Everyone.Well we are now in Cape Town and what a place this is. We have had so much trouble but we will tell you about it. We'll also talk about Cape Town itself, which was great but first, the problems... Our accommodation! Well we arrived at our Lodge 'Ashanti' (THATS ASHANTI - NAME AND SHAME) having booked camping for 4 nights but when we arrived late at night the campsite was full. We were moved to a dorm which was ok we thought but then got...

Hello everyone, Hope you are all ok and enjoying reading our journals and looking at our photos. Well today its Darren's birthday and we're in Stellenbosch which is the wine capital. We went on a wine tour today. Tasting a lot of different wines and had a guided tour around the cellars but not the cellars as we know them. We thought it was where they are stored in all the underground arches. We didn't get to go down in the arches with millions of bo...