Arrived in Xi'an okay, will blog later :) Love, The explorers xXx

Halloha, We flew to Shanghai on Sunday morning... the plane food was interesting (so far plane food has been quite tasty) ... There was some sort of (very) overboiled rice in starchy slop, accompanied by pickled cucumber with a large black vegetable or fruit?! And an undercooked break roll with a slice of animal fat on it. Needless to say, we poked that food and gave it a miss - our little Western tummys couldn't cope with it at 6am!! We had huge issues finding...

Hi Folks, It's our last day in Beijing and we'll both be sad to leave! We've been uber busy since the last entry - literally non stop... On Wednesday we had a walk through Tianamen Square to get to the Forbidden City - which was really hot and busy! We picked up an English speaking Chinese man (tour guide of some shifty variety) called "Bob", which turned out to be a wise move as we wouldn't have had a clue without hiim! Forbidden City was huge and ve...

HI All, After a rather long flight and not much sleep, we arrived in Beijing about mid-day yesterday. We had a crazy taxi journey from the airport- the driving here is a little different (!!), weaving in and out of 8 lanes of traffic! The hostel is pleasant, it's clean and air conditioned which is good because it's 33c outside! We're staying within a stones throw from Tianamen square and the forbidden city so we went for a wander and saw the changing of the g...

Well the day has finally arrived, first stop China, the last few days have been manic, to-do lists, packing, repacking, mountains of paperwork, phone calls, repacking even more, and farewells but we are almost ready to go! :-) The rucksacks are filled, we have (hopefully) got everything that we need and we fly out this afternoon to Beijing! I think we are both excited and its finally starting to feel real, all the planning has been leading up until today. Ma...