Hi! Well as usual - things have not gone entirely to plan. We were meant to go to Osaka yesterday but got up too late (as we thought we could check in a lot later than we actually could) and therefore missed our ferry to Japan. We have found a flight that goes out there for around 150 pound though so its only 50 pound more than the ferry (and only takes a few hours rather than a few days). The night before we were meant to leave we decided to take a look at t...

Evenin all. Not a great deal to report at the moment, just been takin it easy here in Shanghai and wandering around the streets gazing up at the massive sky scrapers. Spent quite a lot of time walking up and down "The Bund" looking across at the Pearl TV Tower and Jin Mao tower (the tallest building in China). It's been great weather here today which makes a nice change from yesterday when it was grey & wet all afternoon! We've had a bit of a shop...

Happy Easter everyone; We're back! Sorry for the delay since the last post but we had mountains to climb and monkeys to defend our biscuits against! It's been a truly epic last few days since we left for Mt Emei and we've seen some unbelievable sights on the way. We started on Tuesday morning at about 8:30 while it was raining at the bottom of the mountain. The walk began in much the same way as it continued for the next two days, steep steps and more steep st...

Greetings........ As usual we havent checked out on the day we planned to and have now just booked a 3 day hike through the mountains... but I'll tell you all about that later. First I'll just catch you up on todays events. After a pretty heavy drinking session last night we woke up kinda late and stumbled downstairs for some authentic Sichuan cuisine.... well we tried but the bacon and egg sandwiches on page 3 of the menu were just too good to resist!! (twice in...

Hi All! Well - a lot to write an not much time to write it. First of all the train to get from Xian to Chengdu was an experience to say the least... Compared to the train we got previously from Beijing to Cheng Du this one was totally 3rd world. We got through the night but it really was a totally new thing compared to the trains in the UK (although to be fair we travelled for 14 hours for the cost of around 10 quid so its not exactly like we expected first cl...