Wednesday : sunny Well it's our last full day in china, and we are up early again. We are up way too early tomorrow too count it as a day so that's why today is our last day. China has been great, apart from the pollution since Shanghai making us cough. A strange thing that we noticed was that no one wears face masksin China. In Vietnam loads of people were, and the air was clean. They were just wearing them for sun protection. The smog was my only real beef wi...

Tuesday : overcast After another bad sleep, I got up and put a load of washing on and, then we went down for some breakfast. The hotels version of a western breakfast is two pieces of toast and a very uncooked runny egg. Leave it to Vegemite to save the day. We wanted to go see pandas today, but we were both feeling groggy and tired. Instead of catching the early bus to the pandas, we went back to our room and listened to some podcasts and I had like six cups...

Monday : rain on and off Shocking sleep last night, that nap yesterday evening was probably not a good idea, too much resting. Never mind we got up and went downstairs for breakfast, we had the choice of Chinese or western. We thought we would try Chinese, been wondering what they have for breakfast. The meal we got was basically chilli beans, chilli cucumber, chill Lettus, crunchy chilli something and then to mix it up rice soup and one boiled egg. The egg was...

Sunday : rain Well we had a good sleep, slept until 10:30. We did some thinking on what we were going to do today. Its Sunday so I think going to the sights might be better to do tomorrow. So today was going to be a lazy day. We eventually left the room, after Kim made a Skype call and I did some diary work. Then we went down to tell the hotel we would like to stay more nights. It took a good 20 minutes to before the person at reception could figure out what w...