Saturday 19th Breakfast in the hostel; a very large portion of museli with fruit and eggs on toast for Frank. With tea and coffee. I spotted a small yellow lizard on the window ledge too. Unfortunately the stress of the night before spilled over into the following morning. We had to arrange our final train journey to Hong Kong. Back in March we had booked tickets from Guangzhou East ('near' Guilin) to Hong Kong departing at 14:04, to get us out of China just fo...

Out again we go, it was gone 10pm at that stage, looking for a taxi feeling defeated and tired. Holding out the directions they were snapped up by a bloke grinning slyly, who via his phone, asked for ¥80. We knocked him down to 45 knowing it should be 40. "Ok ok ok", grinning again at us. He beckoned for us to follow him. He began "I bring you to Yangshuo tomorrow? Yangshuo? Tomorrow." "No we're very tired. Maybe another day" we were trying to keep him sweet (...

Population 4.7 million Fri 18th May Woke up on the train, it was werid seeing buildings go by during your lie in. The hours ticked by, we rode through at least 3 rain storms on our way. In our compartment we had the bottom bunks (yay, more room), two men were on the top bunks, a younger fellow in the middle bunk above Frank and a father and son above mine. There was a family with a little girl in the next compartment. More of China went by our window, lots more...