Day 2 - Beijing After being unable to go back to sleep after I woke up in the night, I started thinking about the next ten months and started wondering how I was going to cope with everything etc. In the end I woke up Martin and we were both awake until past three o'clock. So when the alarm went off at 8.30 AM there was no way we were getting up. So in the end we snoozed the alarm (well turned it off) and woke up at 12. So the day we had planned went out of the...

Day 1 - Beijing China After a relatively easy flight, though with just 3 hours sleep (Marie wanted to stay up and party), we arrived safely in our first destination, Beijing. We successfully found our hostel, down some back alley off a market and was shown to our room, which is actually ok, though it is probably more about Marie and I realising that this is ok (and I reckon we'll look back and see this as a good one after some other countries!!) but it will pro...