Wednesday 9th May Sick all day in bed. I was very rough again with coughing, sneezing etc and now  a congested head. Frank chilled out a little more in the room too. The double room has no external windows but it is a large room for a hostel's scale. The bed was king size, fairly soft (in comparison with the Wheat hostel in Qingdao) with bedside units either side, Frank got an extra pillow. We were still on the corridor to the roof top area but it wasn't as clo...

Monday 7th May Sick all day in bed. Ate in the hostel bar. That's pretty much it for me. Frank kept himself entertained by doing laundry - taken in and laundered by the hostel - then doing a little shopping, fruit, bread, water, more tissues for me (!) and sun bathing/reading Stephen King's 'Thinner' on the roof terrace, chatting to the hostel owner, then 'Mary Berry' and generally watching the world go by. Tuesday 8th May Rested, we were up early for breakf...

Saturday 5th May Up and out early, no coffee with Mr Wheat I'm afraid. Our train left at 10:20 and it took just over 4 hours travelling at 302kph. The trains tilt and glide, the smoothest of flights, so to speak. It smells of food alot. Then after a long time of people's breath...and farts - not mine! It was warm with hazy sunshine, around 18- 20c, but not nearly as polluted as Shanghai, or even as bad as we expected. Transfer at the railyway station to the me...