Hello! Well, I've just spent 3 days in singapore but to be honest what with faffing around with flights and sleeping more than was advisable I ony actually had about a day to look around properly - i feel like i spent more time at the airport! (which is very nice by the way!) I flew from Hong Kong on Thursday evening and as I only got in at 2am I decided to stay in one of the nap pods in the airport rather than get a taxi into the city and try and get a late ch...

Hello!!! Hope you are all well - thank you again for my messages - am really pleased with my degree result - Kraft here I come!! Well, what have i been up to since i last blogged. Well, on one day last week (i'm completely losing track!!) we went to the Longjti Rice Terraces - where, suprisingly enough - they grow rice!! It was really high up in the mountains and I had a lot of trouble getting up to our hotel!! We stayed the first night in a small village, at t...

Hello! Long time no blog - it was really difficult to get online at the last place we were in. Ok, so let me catch u up - on tuesday we arrived after the 23 (turned 35 hour) train journey and transfered via bus to Yangshau. This is one of the most popular tourist destantions in china and you could definately tell! It was quite small but most of the resturants and bars tailored to western tastes with big signs all over the place stating, 'english breakfast serv...

Hello!! It is monday lunchtime here in Shanghai and I am just getting ready to leave for my next destination on this whistle stop tour! Arrived in Shanghai on Saturday afternoon and could feel immediately the temperature difference compared with the other places we had been. It is hot and muggy here, not sunny just uncomfortable!! We went for lunch near our hotel where we were presented with a fish that still had it's tail, eyes, skin and everything intact - it...

Hello!! I've finally put all my photo's so far on - although it has taken me hours so make sure you have a look!! The Summer Palace album is a bit unclear as i didn't chose a high enough resoution to upload them or something!!! Had a great day yesterday (which I think was helped by the fact that I went for a power nap in the afternoon!) In the morning we went by coach to the site where the terracotta warriers were found (it was bout 1 hours journey from where w...