Hi Guys， Sooooo our last night in Xi'an, we were off for a Dumpling Banquet. The resturant next door was a place that specialised in this, so it was nice we didn't have too far to go. There were over 18 courses of dumpling and you really needed to keep a steady pace or you wouldn't have any room for the next course. They did fried, boiled or stemed dumpling each with different flavours. They would arrive with 3 or 4 courses together in there little bamboo styl...

Hi， Last time I wrote the group were heading out for Helen's birthday in Shanghai. It was a really fun night. We started off in O'Malleys in the French District. However everywhere was expensive, it was like paying for a drink back home but when in the last week your used to paying 40p, it seems ridiculous. We only had one drink in there before heading off to get some food. We found a nice looking place and all ate together but we each chose what we wanted t...

Hi Guys, I have now reached Shanghai. The thing i dont like about China is the spitting. We are talking hocking and gagging spitting-not pleasant. Also bizarrely all the children had slits in their trousers. Young kids wander around with their bums on show when they walk. The Chinese dont like nappys so this is what they do. I would take a picture but feel i may get chucked out the country for being a perv. The train was long, it wasn't as bad as I thought. T...

Hello Again, So its our last day in Beijing and I thought best to update you on what we had been doing these past couple of days. Last time I wrote we were off for a wander before meeting our tour group. We met our group that night and headed out for a group meal to get to know each other better. Our group has some lovely people in it from Oz, Ireland, and Norway. There was one more to join our group from Germany but the German was late and arrived after our me...

Greetings from China. So the day starting off wwith a cup of tea and my last chance to watch x factor with my mum. Then a very tearful goodbye to the fmaily before I headed through the gates and straight to the Giraffe restaurant with Darren for lunch. As it was my last chance to eat something decent it was all about the chicken and bacon burger with cheese. Yumo. We had nearly two hours to wait on the plane before we finally took off. Safe to say with a 10 hr...