Monday 23rd April Not having the best nights sleep (more on that later), now breakfast. Blue Mountain has a fridge and a hot water tap for noodles as well as its bar & resturuant grub. It has no kitchen to cook hot food in, so porridge and banana ordered for me, whilst Frank opted to finish off our bread and ordered a coffee. Out on the metro to Shanghai Railway station to buy our onward tickets and we walked along the main road back to the hostel - a fair t...

Saturday 21st April As mentioned in the earlier post we spent much of our first 24 hours in China holed up in our room, venturing out only for some food from the shop next door (pot noodles, fruit in jelly, bread and sweets) and to get the wifi code ... although the internet would only work on Bing. Hmm? Feeling a little digitally stranded but glad of a rest, we slept well. Watching the Robin Williams film "Hook" on the ex- pat channel. Then "Lord of the Rings",...

Through departures at Narita, not much there, mostly shopping and one cafe. Good thing we ate before. Down to the gate, which then changed. Down to that gate. The clientele waiting for the flight were much much more different than the locals over the last week. Jetstar are the Ryanair of Japan shall we say. Well it was cheap. That also explains why it was delayed by 15 mins. Definitely Ryanair. Onboard to our uncomfortable leather (like) seats. Because we had ch...