Hello everyone! Well, we have arrived in Beijing and so far everything is going well. A few mix ups when we arrived and a very long flight which has left us very jet lagged and confused! We arrived in Beijing at 9.30am local time and took the airport train from the airport to downtown Beijing. It only cost us about 2 pounds so we were very happy we picked the cheapest option! When we got in to the city we had to take the subway to the location of our hostel - j...

So... we leave for China tomorrow! We have had an extremely hectic week since we finished work saying goodbye to everyone and trying to get prepared for our trip of a lifetime. We can't belive that we are actually going tomorrow, after so much planning it seems surreal that we are actually doing it! We fly to Beijing tomorrow and should arrive Monday morning. We have accommodation booked already for 2 nights and then our tour begins on Wednesday the 4th Februar...