(Written by Holly) Well, since we last wrote we've done quite a few things... mainly sitting on an overnight sleeper train but more about that later! On Valentines Day, we had a morning in Shanghai to ourselves so we just mooched about the city really, we took the subway underneath The Bund and had a look from the other side. It wasn't that exciting to be honest as it was a really hazy day and quite cold, nothing like the previous day when we had been walking ...

Ni hao! Wow, well we are still in Shanghai and still enjoying it! The city is really modern and clean - completely different from Beijing. At night it was amazing driving through the city with all the lights lit up on the skyscrapers. The sky was a purple colour, partly we think because of the lights and partly because of the smog which is pretty bad here, like Beijing, Last night we went to see the Shanghai Acrobats which we really enjoyed. We took a taxi with ...

(Written by Holly) Hello from Shanghai! Gosh we're moving around so much it's hard to keep on track of this blog! So the last blog we wrote finished up in Xi'an but we didn't mention the train journey from HELL! We met the rest of our group after a pretty boring last day in Xi'an at 6pm and got all our luggage together ready for our train which was to leave at 8. After making sure we had everything and buying food supplies for the 17 hour journey we went to Xi...