Hello all!! A quick boring bit first of all: After weeks of frustration, hitting of computers and general stress that I'm going to lose my camera without having uploaded my photos (!!!), I've abandoned STA's incredibly crappy and slow photo uploading tool and joined www.flickr.com which allows me to upload and organise all my photos much easier. It's a bit annoying if you want to have a look at what I've been up to to have to go onto a separate website, but it's...

So, another few days gone by and we are now in Gulin, having arrived a couple of hours ago on the 12 hour sleep train from Guangzhou...Unfortunately a lovely chinese man snoring and snoorting heavily in his sleep the bunk below me meant that I got a grand total of about an hour's sleep last night though, so bear with me if this blog's a little bit clunky... So, Hong Kong Disneyland, what can I say?!We had an awesome time, met the whole gang (all the princesses, ...

So, another week gone by and time for another blog...from HONG KONG!!Absolutely loving it here and we've only been here just over a day but I'll get to that, first a quick run down of the rest of the week's events... We arrived in Hangzhou around 10am after getting up super early in rainy (again) Shanghai (6am starts are no fun, especially when you have to do the Youth Hostel thing of trying not to wake everyone else up in the room!), after a great train journe...

Ok, so another few days gone by and another blog post, this one from the wonderful big, bustling and busy metropolis that is Shanghai!!After a loo-oong night's train journey from Xi'an to Shanghai, where we discovered that soft sleepers are a fair bit more expensive than hard sleepers and not much more luxurious (they certainly didn't feel any softer on my poor back, and I definitely didn't sleep any better!), we pulled into Shanghai just after midday on Sunday 9...

Hello again from Xi'an, three days later and I'm doing another blog post...that's definitely progress!We are just in the hostel killing a little time before we get a taxi to the station to get Dico's for dinner (chinese version of McDonald's/KFC, although they have hundreds of both of those too, pretty much a KFC on every corner in Xi'an!) and board our soft sleeper for the 16 hour journey to Shanghai... So anyway, we got up bright and early on Thursday and head...