Most of today was spent flying. We caught two flights both of which were delayed so it was quite a tireing day waiting around. I did manage to spice things up a little bit however by doing a classic Siobhan. Oh yes can you guess what I did? Yep I managed to leave my passport on the first aeroplane. As you can imagine my guide really was not impressed with me, but I managed to get it back with not too much of a problem. When we eventually landed in our destinatio...

Wow! What can I say about Chengdu it is my favourite town that I've visited in China. Even though it was still more built up than I had imagined it had so much charecter and I really enjoyed walking down the quaint streets witht the market and the tea houses. We didn't in the end go into on of the tea houses for a ceremony as it worked out as quite a bit of money and as we were lucky enough to have one for free at the terrecotta warriors we decided against it (I ...

This blog is going to cheer everyone up at home. The weather here was absoloutely foul! It was cold and wet. I think I felt it more than anyone else on the trip because India was so hot but I was wearing; a long sleep top, a cardigan, a hoody that I borrowed from Candy, my cag in a bag, leggings, trousers and a wooly hat. Now that you have all had a good laugh I will actually tell you what I got upto here. The first day that I spent in Xi'en involved a hell of a...

Shanghai! After our train journey and aquick freshen up we went on our orientation walk of Shanghai getting to know what local amenities we had at our disposal. This finished at the Shanghai museum. None of us however were really in the mood for wandering around a museum which I know is a little shocking if you know me. We did have a quick browse around the Calligraphy and Traditional Chinese paintings before we left to grab a spot of lunch. After this I drag...

Where to start about Beijing, probably best to start with my mini adventure at Delhi airport. I got to the airport at the suggested three hours before departure, that was totally unneeded. This was because I was the only passenger that was checking in on the flight from Delhi to Beijing. This was something that I wasn't completely aware of untill I was boarding the plane. Luckily it turned out that there was other passengers on the plane so I wasn't the only one,...