It was past nine when we returned to Silvermine Bay on Lantau from HK Disneyland. As we had not eaten we browsed the local options (McDonalds and a supermarket) for available foods and discovered that our daytrip had caused our appetites to regress to when we were eight years old. R's meal consisted of a fillet of fish from McD's a bag of Nacho Cheese Doritos and a chocolate milk, I however went for the sausage McMuffin, salt & vinegar crisps and fruit gummie...

We left Yangshuo ready to continue traveling after our relative rest and headed back to Guilin where we were scheduled to get the overnight train to Hong Kong the following night. We have decided that Guilin is not our favourite place.You can see from the pictures that it looks quite nice with a lively city centre, Li River, and karsts in the background but there was something desperate about the place.Walking down the shopping streets, tea house and restaurant o...

So here we are in Yangshuo, originally a beautiful village in the middle of Karst country but now transformed into a top tourist destination with all the attractions and shortcomings that brings. We have now been here for five nights recuperating from our hectic first three weeks and getting our laundry done but we have not been entirely idle. Our best efforts at spending a day or two doing nothing are continually thwarted by the range of activities available to ...

I am sick of losing to Antony.No matter what we play, he wins.I try to act like I don't care, I say "I'm just playing for fun, it's just down to luck".Rubbish!No one wins on luck for 8 hours straight which is just what happened when we flew to Guilin from Lijiang via Kunming. We had a long layover and paid a high price for 'VIP' tickets but beat the other option which was a 30 hour train ride.But I am getting off the point, I hate losing cards to Antony...

Exit Chengdu and enter Lijiang in Yunnan province, a couple of hundred miles north of Kunming for you geography buffs. In Chinese folklore, Yunnan was where all the naughty little boys and girls were sent to and we thought we were destined for it!We decided to fly after getting annoyed with the ridiculously long train journeys and were rewarded with an arbitrary upgrade to first class courtesy of pushing to the front of the VIP queue and using the ignorant foreig...