Hi,I haven't been able to get on here for long enough to update my blog but I have a spare hour now so here it comes....On Tuesday we went to see the terracotta army. I was really excited because the great wall and the army are the 2 reasons that I wanted to come to China. We hired a local guide to come with us and explain hat we were looking at. He didn't actually teach us anything though because he had such a strong chinese accent when he spoke English that we ...

Hello everyone! I have had SUCH a busy week that I literally haven't had a spare minute to go on the net. This is going to be an epic message......So I had a few days with Terna which was fun but we couldn;t go to see any tourist stuff because I didn't know what I'd be doing with my tour group so instead we just shopped and went ou lots. We did go to see Kung Fu panda at the cinema though which was really good and not too naughty because it is set in China so it...

Hello from Beijing! The lone explorer is now back out in the big wide world! The trip started out quite dramatically with mum putting unleaded in our diesel car so then Birdy had to come and collect us from Aylesbury and take me to Heathrow at 100mph (literally!!). I was terrified! I got my first flight to Vienna which looked from the window to be the most boring place in the world. It was all fields, tiny villages and millions of windmills. They seem pretty...