We spent a total of 4 days in Shanghai and absolutely loved it!  It was so modern yet still had a real Chinese feel to it!  Our hostel was also the best we have stayed in so far...apart from the guy in our room who slept all day and had handcuffs under his bed...dodgy!  We managed to do alot and the Bund was as cool at night as we had anticipated.  We also went to a cool market.  It is a lot more touristy than Beijing and therefore more e...

Second time lucky! Just spent ages doing this journal enrty only to lose it...slightly annoyed you could say! This version may therefore be more brief than the one I intended!... We arrived in Xi'an the other day after a 14hr train ride overnight in a hard sleeper carriage. It wasn't half as bad as I feared and was comfy and clean which was the main thing! We were a bit disappointed that Xi'an is as polluted an smoggy as Beijing. It is so bad in China t...

Right I have finally gotten round to doing my website so apologies for the delay!  All has been quite crazy and we have been so busy this has been the first chance I have got to do this! Anyway onto the exciting stuff!  We arrived in Beijing on Friday the 13th very jet lagged as it is 7 hours ahead of English time.  Nick was brill and found our hostel really quickly!  The whole day we were in a bit of a daze from the jet lag!  We wal...