I'm writing this with 96 minutes remaining on my journey. In total the trip will have lasted 36 hours. I thought I would write as I went along but things have been surprisingly busy, considering I haven't really left my seat. So busy in fact I still have 48% battery on my iPad and my iPod has hardly been touched. The day started by waiting 30 minutes in -25C for a late taxi driver, no worries. He then drove disconcertingly fast in thick smog along to Urumqi, wh...

Hello again, last blog I told you about the beginning of my time in Beijing but I didn't write much as it was so hectic. Well the next 5 days were even busier! Instead of going day by day I'll just fill in some of the events... Firstly we moved out of the youth hostel and in with host families. My host family was absolutley great. About two minutes from Beijing Number 50 Middle School the apartment we were in was 5 floors up overlooking a very busy cross roads. ...

Disclaimer - The detail in my first few blogs from China reflects only the intensity of the days and not as an indicator to the frequency of future blog posts... TravelingThere's only two things of note from my incredibly long yet surprising mundane journey across the world; the window view and the airports. The route from Heathrow to Hong Kong went over Urumqi and while I was looking at the lights (at some unknown time) I may have seen the lights from my projec...