Our next pit stop on tour was in Hangzhou, a city not too far away from Shanghai. Sam and Al have another friend from uni - Mark - who is currently living there teaching English and learning mandarin. We managed to come up trumps in terms of getting there, securing a cheap flight wednesday morning. Mark met us at the airport and we were immediately whisked away to a mountain retreat for the evening. It was nice to get an idea of rural China, removed from all the ...

Our next pit stop on tour was in Hangzhou, a city not too far away from Shanghai. Sam and Al have another friend from uni - Mark - who is currently living there teaching English and learning mandarin. We managed to come up trumps in terms of getting there, securing a cheap flight wednesday morning. Mark met us at the airport and we were immediately whisked away to a mountain retreat for the evening. It was nice to get an idea of rural China, removed from all the ...

Beijing BabyThe flight although with the dubious 'Air Ethipia' actually turned out to be fine and was virtually empty so we could sprawl out and sleep. There was however some demented Chinese guy, entirely unchaperoned on board who attempted to smoke during the flight and wouldn't listen to any of the in flight staff. Still at least he provided more entertainment than the films! Arrived in Beijing at around 6pm to be nicely surprised by Thom waiting f...