we crossed the border into Hong Kong at about 0900 hours and they gladly let us back into our colonial ruled homeland. but ChanChan being a foreigner slowed us down slightly! we got a taxi which took us too our hotel which was a YMCA, a big posh YMCA! we had porters and door opener people! brilliant! We headed off in search for Josh's headphones as they'd be the cheapest than anywhere we go to. after browsing in numerous shops we eventually found some cheap, goo...

where do i start with Yangzhou, Oh My God, it is the best pace ive been so far, beers cheap lots of activitys and lots of western style bars! perfect! to get the ball rolling we stayed at a place called fawlty towers! we were hoping to have the sign so we could change the letters around like on the program but we couldnt think of any anagrams! that morning we took a bamboo raft down the Li river which was really spectacular apart from it was bloody freezing and...

Shanghai was brillaint, it was just covered in eastern european buildings and the air was clean unlike Xi'an! after getting off the train ride wemade our way to the hotel. it was set about 1km outside the centre of shanghia which was abit inconvienent but whos to moan! we droped our bags off and made our way to the cntre of Shanghai (just aim for tall buildings). we wanted to go up the towers; they have two so far the oriental tv tower and Shanghai Pearl tower,...

we had an 18 hour bus ride into Xi'an (or she-an as the chinese pronounce it). it would have bee a fairly comfortable ride if we didnt have a man that would wake himself up with his tremendous snoring! it was like a bloody jet landing! once getting into Xi'an we noticed the abundance of pollution, it was so bad i had a slight coughing fit! the scenery was just roads and the sky was grey with smog. ( im really selling Xi'an here arn't i!!). anyway besides all th...

the other day we scaled the great wall of china! took about 3-4 hours to do a couple of towers. which were a very hard climb. (even for us westerners). we got followed for about a mile by some really old farmers, they must have been about 70! they wern't especially fast its just they had amazing stamina! they kept up with us for ages. we eventually got rid of them by buying a bluk of postcards. ive got some brillaint photos nut i just havent got time to uploa...