Tried to get an early start today, but it was difficult dragging Therese out of bed! We were still up at 7.45am though. Wanted to get an early Speed Ferry to Macau (former Portuguese colony on mainland china). On the way out of our guest house, a new sign had been put up to say that the level 3 flag had been raised for the typhoon. Therese tried to ask the security guy what the level 3 flag near the elevators means but he just kept telling her where the elevators...

Early start again this morning, well Lee had to wake me up I could of slept for a week. Lee turned on the t.v straight away to check the weather report, luckily the typhoon is not due till Friday afternoon and it going to the left of Hong Kong (so Lee tells me, one of my worst fears is bad weather I don't like not been in control because my imagination runs wild). When we came down in the lift the sign has now changed to level 3 typhoon. I wanted to know what tha...

Think I drank too much red wine last night! Big thanks to Becky, Barry and Angel again, and to their friends too. We didn't have a good nights sleep - the mattress is literally an inch thick and under that is just wood, people were coming in and out of the room all night, some of the windows and curtains were open so we could here the Market starting up very early in the morning and the sun coming through...good thing I was a bit drunk and probably slept through...

So today it was time to leave the safety of the group tour and look after ourselves. We met up with our great Swedish Friends Therese and Johanna at 10am (well, 10.15am once Therese packed her bag) and got a taxi to our new home - Innjoyworld Hostel. The taxi arrived in a "traditional" type street (look out for photos sometime soon). We walked into the hostel and first impressions of the inside were not too bad. Then we walked into the room - it was a ...

Today was our first full day in Shanghai. We met at 9.30am and had a nice walk through People's Square to the Shanghai Museum - ate our cereal bar along the way. The museum shows the clothing, paintings, pottery, coins etc throughout Chinese history. We had a wander around for a couple of hours and sneaked in a quick coffee. After that we all went to the Silk Market in the Bazaar around Yuyuan Gardens and Shanghai Old Street. I love how one minute you are walkin...