China Observations.... People sleep anywhere and everywhere. It's accepted to sleep at work when not busy, e.g. On shop counters! Chinese people seem quite rude, especially the men, and to start with I thought it was maybe racism or sexism, but they seem rude to each other as well. E.g. Shout at each other, push in front of each other in queues. When you talk to people however they are sweet and helpful generally. Especially the younger generation. They we...

When Hannah left, Grant and I moved to a hostel that was not only cheaper than the hotel we were in, but also gave us the 'travelling' feeling that you don't get when you are stuck in a hotel room and don't have a common area to hang out in. We still didn't know what we wanted to do after Shanghai. The original plan was to go to South China, but unfortunately there was flooding in the South, so we spent the first morning researching places to go. We decided o...

There was now only 3 of u left on the tour, and we were told that as there was less than 6 of us, we didn't get a dedicated tour guide and would be picked up and dropped off at places by various local tour guides along the way. We all wondered how we were going to know what was going on and felt a bit abandoned by the tour company, which is ironic as it was certainly going to be more like proper travelling than the last pampered week had been! The first day didn...

We arrived at Beijing airport and were picked up by our tour guide and taken to our hotel. This was really handy as we were shattered after our flight and navigating around Beijing on our own would not have been easy!! The hotel was lovely, our room was massive compared to the cupboard room we were just in, it even had a PC in it! ( I was extremely impressed by the PC in the room, I suspect Grant thought I was a bit TOO impressed by it, but considering that we ...