Just finished the last few days in Beijing. As you can see from the photos, we went to the Forbidden City where we had the most interesting audio guide. Firstly, when someone gives you a device that you're about to wear for 5 hours and says don't touch this button, that's just unfair! The guide was a good idea in theory: you had a digital map of the City which told you where you were and read you the appropriate information automatically. Only problem, the locati...

The day started later than planned due to jet lag and getting used to the Chinese beds - apparently they favour the concrete mattress! Wandered around the city this morning and continued to notice that Beijing is a city of great contrasts - flashy hotels, restaurants, westernised malls are all juxtaposed with the poor on bikes rooting through rubbish to make a few extra Fen, and the run down housing of the Hutongs. It's also changed from the map we have with stu...

After some teething troubles the blog looks like it finally works. So we're about to upload all our blogs from the first week. We're writing them by hand and putting them online when we can...thanks for watching! Well we've made it!! We're on the road again this time for four months - scary and exciting! We were so keen to leave that we actually left Stephen's Mum and Dad's house 3 times - we've never been so disorganised before - but heck it's only a little tri...