I will be honest with you, I believe my horoscopes and that you should never walk over three drains. Friday 13th however is just another day. Unless its 2013 and you are in Shanghai and you are me! Yes probably am being over dramatic but you weren't there, you don't understand. Okay.. 1. Woke up on the top bunk in a sleeper train. Living nightmare. 2. The train has no water to brush my teeth with. Oh and it stinks and my socks got wet with stuff I'm not sure w...

LAST DAY IN BEIJING! It was so much fun oversleeping and then having to repack an entire rucksack AGAIN (I want the capital letters to enforce the fact this had been done many times previous) in just 15 minutes. It seemed to work in my favour as everything did fit in.. just seemed to have gained an extra 20kg. Not cool. After going an seeing the temple of heaven (again, important, famous, theres an explanation on my camera!) we did our cultural five minutes t...

My feet did not thank me for yesterdays behaviour. After climbing 750+ steps to the wall and along it yesterday, my muscles were making themselves known today and obviously the plan for today was to do an increased amount if walking. You want to know where I walked to right? That would be Tiananmen Square and then the Forbidden City. The square is, as mentioned previous, a square. That's as exciting as it gets. We were somewhat a tourist attraction ourselves -...

Today was the big day! I'd been looking forward to this so much! I can say I have now climbed up to the Great Wall of China, walked along it and then I took a toboggan to the bottom of it! I can not describe the feeling of getting to the top of the wall and looking out over the side to just see the mountains and the city in the distance. The smile on my face made my jaw ache. This was just crazy insane! Walking along it is so surreal with a few of us just looking...

What a day! After arriving at the hotel and being left at the door I definitely felt all the thousands of miles between me and home.. (7358 apparently, think they got lost somewhere for an extra 1000 miles?!). After checking in and getting to my room I hunted down the wifi password just so I could talk English to someone, anyone! Once everyone knew I was safe I gave in, went to sleep for only maybe 11 hours to a knock on the door! After meeting Aida, my new roo...