Hello once again! Well what an eventful few days involving illness, eating in a toilet restaurant and stolen bikes...! Dave left things in Yangshuo when he was due to go to a caligraphy class while I secretly went to get his birthday present before my cooking class. My class was great - we went round the local markets learning about all the veg and saw the butchers where not only did they have live chickens, ducks and geese, but also rabbits and dogs...! I sa...

Hello! I can't believe it...we're actually where the photograph was taken! Hooray! Anyway, this is just a little blog to say that Dave has written about what we've been up to over the last few days so go to his blog at : www.statravelblogs.com/stereophilia Hope you're all well and lots of Chinese love, Isey xxx

Hello! It's my turn to blog, but hopefully it'll be a short one as we're running out of time...! So dave left things in Xi'an where we were waiting to board a posh ‘D' train to Suzhou. We swiftly dumped our bags and headed straight out as we only had an afternoon to explore. We visited the 'Master of the Nets' garden, which is a labyrinth (pardon the spelling!) of little walled gardens surrounds by hutongs. You'd wlak around and think you'd seen everything...

Hello! Just a quick one to say that Dave has blogged this time around so check out what we have been up to at www.statravelblogs.com/stereophilia. Love you! Isey

Hello finally! The last week has been utterly amazing so here's a little run down of what we have been up to... Our arrival in Beijing was a cold one, but we settled ourselves into the hostel, booked our tickets to Harbin and had a 3 hour nap having not slept for around 36hours...! Our first day was spent wandering around the 'Temple of Heaven', which of course was covered in snow and lovely. There were oodles od people trying to clear the snow on plastic she...