Hello again everyone. More greetings from Beijing. Still having an amazing time. Yesterday, I went to see the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square, both of which were amazing. Met loads of lovely Chinese people who wanted to show me the city as well. Shame about the pollution, all my photographs will look very grey indeed. And in the evening I met up with my old friend Tobias who lives here now, so he was showing me the town a bit, very cool experience. And ...

Hello everyone, Greetings from Beijing, I've finally made it!! Seemed to take forever, I was seriously sleep-deprived even before I left (hello Ian, Mike) and there were a few potentially embarrassing moments during my far too long stop-over in Qatar. E.g. I accidentally ate part of a chicken bone (I shouldn't have eaten chicken in the first place - do you think I'm going to die of bird flu?) and almost said 'bless you' when this guy next to me started snee...