You wouldn't think that one could talk about the same journey for a third time, but here I go. Its all about the feed before the journey, we've slowly learnt to have a good fill of the chinese favourite dish of tomato and egg with bread if we can find it, and rice if we can't. We then also order some fried rice to take with just in case. We can then contently bid farewell to our recent home before walking a mere 100m and begin sticking out those all important th...

You wouldn't think that one could talk about the same journey for a third time, but here I go. Its all about the feed before the journey, we've slowly learnt to have a good fill of the chinese favourite dish of tomato and egg with bread if we can find it, and rice if we can't. We then also order some fried rice to take with just in case. We can then contently bid farewell to our recent home before walking a mere 100m and begin sticking out those all important th...

You wouldn't think that one could talk about the same journey for a third time, but here I go. Its all about the feed before the journey, we've slowly learnt to have a good fill of the chinese favourite dish of tomato and egg with bread if we can find it, and rice if we can't. We then also order some fried rice to take with just in case. We can then contently bid farewell to our recent home before walking a mere 100m and begin sticking out those all important th...

He who never tries never knows, and when we stroll past a young Chinese hitchiker who wants to improve his English what better chance is there to explore the world of free transportation. Despite the fact that we are attempting a mere 25km, a blip on our friends epic 2200km to Lhasa, the forbidden city in Tibet, the 3 of us walk and talk for an hour or so sticking out our thumbs and best smiles with each passing vehicle. We are excited and surprised when someone ...

A gratefully early start from the guesthouse left us sitting penniless in Deqen an hour and a half later. Scouring for banks to change dollar into Yuan it was soon apparent that in this town that was going to be an impossible feat, despite the sprawling development that seems to tag onto the end of most of Chinas once pretty towns. Thinking we were screwed we resorted to our bank cards, after using mine it seemed we were even more screwed but somehow Prue uses h...