Yahoo! First day in Hongers and I already love it. Even though we didn't get to bed until 2:30am, Shannon was awake and getting us up by 10am. I would've been happy to sleep longer but I think it was for the best that we got moving. After showering and dressing, we went up to the reception to pay and then headed out to start exploring the city. We bought some breakfast at a bakery but there were no chairs to sit down and eat so we took the metro to our destin...

Today we leave China to fly to Hong Kong. Shannon had a bit of a rough sleep last night because he is feeling a bit flu-y so we slept in until 10am and then took our time to get ready. At close to 11:30 we headed downstairs with our bags and asked for them to be locked away in the luggage hold area. We decided to have breakfast and a pot of tea at the hostel and it was probably one of the better breakfasts we have had in China. I had muesli with yoghurt and eggs ...

Today was our final full day in Hangzhou and I suppose China. We decided we'd just take it easy and so didn't make any plans as such. We were out the door by 10am and made our way by foot down to the Westlake area where we had seen a bakery the day before. After 15mins we made it to the bakery and selected our treats. I had a delicious coconut bun and the coffee we had was pretty good as well. We relaxed in the bakery finishing off our coffees and headed out fo...

We had an eventful day in Hangzhou today. In the end I think it came good, but there were definitely a few ups and downs along the way. We awoke around 10am and got up and ready quickly. We had decided to go to the Lingyin Temple which is located about half an hour by bus from where we are staying. When we picked up our laundry from reception we asked the guy how to get there and he said you walk up to near the metro station and then catch the number 7 bus. S...

Today we left Shanghai to move to Hangzhou. We woke up and were ready to leave by 10am when Shannon noticed we didn't have to check out until 12pm. So we left our bags in the room and went up to the bar on the rooftop to have breakfast. We had a club sandwich, orange juice and a coffee each before heading back down to the room to collect our things and check out. To get to Hangzhou we needed to take two metro lines and then a bullet train. The metros were prett...