OKay, so here is a quick blog of the last few days. we are soo busy its really hard to update day by day :( monday 18th - we trekked the great wall! its was.. unbelivable, nothing u could capture in a photograph. the sheer size and the beutiful sourroundings..wow is all i can say. it was so steep, it is embarressing how unfit we both are. we were on a tight schedule with our trip, we had 2 1/2 hours on the wall. so we walked towers 6-14 in the daytime and it was...

Nicole fell asleep last night to the sound of our neighbour pleasuring himself! we awoke briskly at 5am and outside was an amazingly cool tempreture as it had rained loads!!!! @hongquio airport nicole had her luggage sifted through because she looks like a terrorist..or because she packed some suspicious looking device, who knows. we the went on to what nicole describes as 'the death plane'. they literalkly did not put the breaks on until we hit the ground..it w...

Hi its Laura. its 12.23pm I waited up for 2hours for my family to phone me, as have been missing them loads! but unfortunatly some mis-communication meant they thought they were ringing me 10.00pm UK time instead of 10.00am Uk time. so when they do phone here in 5hrs tmie, we would have checked out to head off to beijing! good times ;) have packed. my rucksack is too heavy to trek with. Will be sending some crap home asap! so expect that to be coming mom. Ra...

Tis Saturday! Our last day in Shanghai. Wanted to make the most of it, however slept badly last night- its been uber humid here and sleep was just not possible. Plus, im getting more bites each nite. The bugs like me. Currently im at 4 itchy red bites.. eww. It was noticably smoggy today also. You look up, or into the horizon and pollutuion is visible, its very stange. It was definatly the hottest its been, the locals had there umbrellas out to protect from the...

Today we awoke after 14hours!!! Didnt even hear the alarm, must have been the hot carbonara in our bellys! feel amazing though. really needed that sleep to give us a boost! Enjoyed our first proper lunch at 2.30pm, in the form of a triple decker club sammich :) and wrote a few postcards.. we really hope they get bk home, because we did slightly slag off shanghai..minimally.. Also we asked the barmaid to write UK in chinese on the bottom, as she said no postcard...