Author Archives: Matt

So this morning we said a sad goodbye to Mama Naxi and her family. She insisted on getting photos of Ellie and Will and then presented us all with Naxi good luck charms as well as more fruit and yoghurt. …

We’ve just arrived in Lijiang in Yunnan province having spent a couple of days in Kunming. For the last month, it seems we’ve mainly wandered around big, big cities (at almost 20 million people, you don’t get much bigger than …

In China, I think the answer would probably have something to do with the chicken being herded across by several tens of eager pedestrians. A better question would be how did the chicken cross the road? Now admittedly, we’ve spent …

Sorry for the recent lack of updates but we’ve just returned to Chengdu from a four day trip to a couple of national parks in the north of Sichuan and have only now been able to get on the internet. …

Sat here in the dark, listening to Will snore and Jo giggling over something she’s reading by headtorch, bags repacked ready to move on after our trip to the Great Wall tomorrow, I’m left thinking about what this first week …

Whilst planning this trip, I had no doubts that one of our major difficulties would be our complete lack of language (I did buy a-learn-to-speak Mandarin cd but ran out of time). In most of the of the other countries …

Yes I know I’ve not written anything since we got here (and my mum is already giving me grief) but I’ve been trying to sort out a process for organising our photographs (we’ve taken over 400 between us already) and …