Ni Hao from Guangzhou. Last night we had an authentic Chinese meal at a local restaurant where everything was in Chinese but it was real good fun using our 3 words that we knew in Chinese plus hand signals, we ended up with Fried spare ribs, chicken with fish and vegetables plus broccoli in garlic and of course rice and 2 beers. It was good fun and we even got a Chinese lesson off the owner before we left. Today has been a real challenge in more ways than one, ...

Ni Hao (hello) We have just arrived in China on what we thought was going to be a 3 hour jouney but was in fact only 2 hours (the Chinese are so efficient!!!) The journey out of HK had us passing not too much scenery as everyhere around HK and China seems to be in econmic boom and there is building work going on all around you. It took around 2 minutes to clear formalities at Guangzhou East train station and then the fun began on the underground. We paid our 5...