We'd arranged to meet Priz & Uday this evening for a meal out. We met them up in Harbin, Uday is from Southern India whilst Priz is Dutch and they're living in Beijing. They took us to a cool little shopping hutong not far from our new hostel and we had a fab meal. This was followed by drinks in a bar we would have walked past if we weren't with them. It just looked like someone's house from the outside but was a snug bar on the inside. Sy got his taste buds...

What a surprise! Another delayed flight!! This was I wasn't too surprised about as not only was pollution looking pretty poor but it seems like all our flight have a delay of some type in china. Landing was the strangest experience as there was nothing but dense smog for all of the descent. I could only see land about 20 seconds before we landed. The taxi system was a bit better organised here so managed to get in the meter taxi queue and get to our hostel for...