China

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. …

We  have now left Xi’an on another sleeper train. We survived the 16 hour journey by sitting in the corridor watching beautiful mountains out of the window.  Following an exciting tea of pot noodle, Matt and Will squashed up on …

Black, white, wet nose. Furry, black eyes, fluffy ears. Oval, squishy belly, claws. Wearing a penguins suit and robbers mask.   Itching, rubbing, climbing. Eating, yawning, sleeping.   Soft, gentle, cuddly PANDA!! Error: Unable to create directory uploads/2026/05. Is its …

Going   Going  Going  Gone, The train goes down the track, Clickety Clack, Clickety Clack, Long like a centipede, wide like an elephant, Clickety Clack, Clickety Clack.   Look out the window, everything’s a blur, Clickety Clack, Clickety Clack, Rooms are …

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 …

If you go somewhere and something is to expensive, then  bargain  with the stallholder. I had to do that when I got my brush. The man said it would be 25 yaun for one brush !  So I said 10, …

Last night we walked along the busy night market street. We saw lots of interesting foods on sticks. We saw, spiders, scorpion (its legs and sting were still wriggling!), skinned snakes, locusts, starfish, seahorse, and bugs all ready to be …