Ni Hao COLD COLD COLD is now the only adjective we are using to describe China. This place is sooooooo cold and partly because everybody keeps all the doors and windows open on everything. (Mum, Mel and I have decided that you and Geoff must have been Chinese in a past life!!!!) Today after a needed lie in it was back to the Bus Station to catch the bus for what we thought was a 30 minute/20 mile journey. It turned out to be nearly 2 hours on the 2nd coldest bu...

Ni Hao Before I start telling you all what a fantastic day we have had I thought those of you that are missing us might like to know that we will be back in England only 100 days from now as today is Day 266 of our epic journey (Dot get making those corn beef pies!!!) Up again before the sun rose and by 6.30 we were walking through Chengdu watching our breath in the cold air and trying to get a cab to the Bus Station 5km away. Luck was on our side and within a ...

Ni Hao Thankfully our air conditioning last night had a heater mode and meant we only came within a whisker of catching pneumonia!!! The alarm sounded this morning while it was still dark outside and we jumped out onto the concrete floor and quickly dressed before bits started dropping off us. It was a short 10km drive to the research and conservation centre in Chengdu to see the pandas, we arrived a little before 8.30am and had the place to ourselves for at l...

Ni Hao We arrived at the train station in Guilin expecting to be ushered into a warm waiting room with big leather chairs just like in Guangzhou but no such luck we were sent to the main waiting room and placed on cold metal chairs in a waiting room with no lights and no heating, the place was absoloutley freezing cold and we had a 1 hor wait for our train. About 15 minutes before we boarded we were joined by a nice Chinese lady wanting to practice her English a...