Hi Everyone, Well - today didn't exactly work out as planned. We intended to get up early an go to the Summer Palace an walk round the gardens but got up late an by the time we got to the bus stop it was 12. So we decided to do what any god fearing english tourist would do - go shopping for fake clothes! We found some amazing knock offs an spent literally the entire day there. Shopping in a Beijing market really is a totally new experience. The constant scr...

Wow! Another day in Beijing, another unbelieveable experience! Started off with breakfast at a local diner, courtesy of our room-mate "Saint" or "The Saint" as he's quickly become known! The Saint then took us to the bus stop and arranged for some random guy to escort us on our journey on the world's most crowded bus, and then tell us where to get off! Obviously the Saint speaks much better Chinese than we do since he's from Taiwan but he had ...

Hi everyone back home, we've finally managed to get online to update our blog for the first time! It's been a bit of a crazy couple of days already and there's quite a few stories to be told so i'll try to keep it brief... The flight over here was long and sleepless (and delayed!) but we managed to keep ourselves entertained with travel-scrabble and constant trips to the snack bar for beer/wine/vodka-miniatures & various bits of junk food! We arrived at B...