Hi EveryoneI am now in a lovely little town called Pingyao, which is halfway between Xian and Beijing. It is a Ming dynasty walled city that is the best preserved of its age in China and is really wonderful to go exploring all the tiny narrow alleys that take you past ancient buildings and courtyards with locals sitting in playing mah jong, dominos or cards. I am staying in a hostel that is the former Ming Governers residence and has a central courtyard, rooms wi...

Hi Everyone,   I have been having a great time in Hong Kong, probably a bit too good really as I have not wanted to leave and have ended up staying here for three weeks. However, at the end of travelling through India, Nepal, Tibet and China it has been fantastic to enjoy some of my normal creature comforts like great food in outdoor restaurants, good coffee, a bottle or two of Pinot Grigio, some retail therapy at the many shops here, sitting on the beach a...

Hi Everyone   I'm still playing catch up with my blog, but am now getting there...slowly! I have tried putting pictures on honestly, but am having great difficulty with this and may need to put aside a whole day in an internet cafe to get this done.   I last left off in Xian where the first section of my Dragoman truck tour had just finished and we'd had some terrible weather for a couple of weeks. Therefore we left Xian in an extremely damp a...

Hi Everyone,   I've been incredibly bad at keeping this up to date lately and have not posted any photos for ages. The reason at least partly for this was trying to find internet cafes that a) can support this website, b) will allow you to put discs in and c) you can actually see the computer monitor through the thick fog of cigarette smoke that seems to be a feature of internet cafe's in China.   Therefore, to recap... After leaving Lhasa we t...

Hi EveryoneI have not been able to write in here for a while as we have been doing a lot of camping and even when I have stayed in towns, the internet does not always allow me to get into my blog.Since my last entry from Kathmandu, I have been on the Dragoman overland truck tour travelling through Nepal and Tibet. We left Kathmandu and travelled to a really nice place on the border called The Last Resort. It is a campsite with huge tents, a nice bar and restauran...