Chengdu has been great. Since we arrived on Monday we’ve mixed our time between activity, planning and relaxing really well. Of course even when balancing these three staples of life on the open road you inevitably feel like you’re not dedicating enough time to any one of them but it’s the only way to stay […]
Ok, so it’s now 28th November 2011. We left home 49 days ago. We have travelled 15445km. 5165km by air & the remaining 10280km overland by train. We’re tired all the time. We’re realising that it’s very difficult to blog when you’re out doing stuff all the time. We’re realising that we’re carrying far too […]
It’s well known to those who know it well that this time last week we’d spent the afternoon in Beijing’s Summer Palace and in the evening finally found Peking Duck. Monday and Tuesday were spent relaxing – something we really needed to do after the surge we’d forced ourselves to embark upon to cover Beijing’s […]
We’d nailed Pingyao in our first 24 hours [tis about a square mile] so today was spent at a slower pace. It’s been an interesting day of reflection for me as for once I’ve not been the one wired to the laptop. There’s an ever-more prevalent concern rumbling away at the back of my mind […]
Last night we experienced “Hard Sleeper” train travel. If you ever wondered how your luggage felt when you moved from place to place this is the option for you. Unless for some unknown reason you happen to find yourself travelling within China to somewhere that no-one else wants to go you’re essentially going to sleep […]
The second batch of galleries covers our time in Mongolia, the Trans-Mongolian and a couple of galleries from our adventures in Beijing.
Beijing was our first taste of China. We saw modern china, ancient china and life in between. Click any image below to get a taster.
Here’s a pair of galleries from Beijing, the first city we visited in China, just in time for Japan…errr and to go with the latest onslaught of journal waffle. Enjoy!
We’d planned for this to be our last day in Beijing with a night train to Pingyao proposed as our exit strategy. As it happened there are no free spots on this evenings train so we’re forced to wait until tomorrow evening instead. No matter really – being forced to stop is proving to be […]
Without question the Forbidden City is the highlight of Beijing’s tourist trail for me so far. Its coffee shop also has the best coffee even if it is expensive. Fact is, when a place is this impressive, with its uniform structures that evoke the emotions you’d expect from the Orient, £2.50 for a brew seems […]