If japan was relaxed china is its slightly manic and noisy neighbour wandering the busy heavily polluted streets with smells of Peking duck which is delicious to smelling like 100 hundred people all just took a s*** on the street.spent the last two mornings waking up with a hangover staying in a typical Asian backpackers good tunes beers a chatty people from all corners of the globe .did some tourist things tianamen square( we don't talk about tank man, a lot of ...

Ok so on my way to china get to the airport for the first flight.but have a three hour wait for connection so I find a comfy place to sleep easily done trouble is the flight has moved gates likely I'm woken by a Aussie couple who I had a 5 min conversation to tell me that my flight was leaving in 10 min and I was in the wrong place.luckily I make it( last one on the flight) .i arrive at Beijing no one knows we're my luggage is after much shouting in Japanese I'm ...

Woke up at 7 this morning slightly hungover from the night before after coming home from dinner with a couch surfer from china bumped into a very interesting woman from las Vegas a girl from oz and a British guy ( some interesting conversation took place and some drinks) .so it's 7 in the morning and I'm slightly gutted last day in Japan and stressed going to china ( don't even remember when my flight is never mind were I'm staying) and its raining hard and I hav...

Ok so I'm sat in the famous tori fugu restaurant in asakusa Tokyo( yes that's them swimming in the tank ) .looking at the menu is a bit overwhelming there is apparently a lot of ways to eat blowfish a hot pot of bones flesh and skin , the ever popular sashimi(raw blowfish) , a tasting menu which is every part of the fish about 8 ways which is out of my budget , I have gone for the fried fugu mainly because after yesterday's raw fish breakfast I don't think I can...

On my way to see the fireworks festival when I get to the station I realise I forgot my map , remembering the station I wanted started with an m I got on the first train that arrived . The train was packed and the pushers were in full effect getting more on each train than thought possible ,so I find myself like a sardine face pressed between the door and some random Japanese .after about 8 stops no station with an m however the next station which began with an ...