April 2007 - China -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have this nasty habit of never writing and/or publishing the last day of my trip. It is almost tradition now. I get wrapped up in going back to the real world that I forget all the wonderful things that happen in those final »
April 2007 - China -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My second last day in Hong Kong began with a trip to the tailors for a fitting for a new suit (actually it started with a banana, but you don’t need to know that). After all the adjustments were made to what I hoped »
April 2007 - China -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- With another day of rain we were running out of time to do siteseeing so we decided that today we would head for Macau and hope for the best. I forgot to mention that on my first day in Hong Kong I was walking out »
April 2007 - China -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Black, black clouds rolled over Hong Kong and we watched from our room as it gradually made it's way towards us and lights went on everywhere. In time such as these there is little point in siteseeing, so shopping was the agenda for »
April 2007 - China -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well the morning didn’t start off that well but now that I am in Hong Kong, at the Four Seasons, looking out onto the harbour, drinking champagne, you can find me one very happy little camper. Check out proved a 15 min confusing exercise »
April 2007 - China -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Today was the day I was able to escape my parents company for the morning. My friend from Four Seasons Shanghai, Evelyn had a grand plan of taking me out in Shanghai. More specifically the Yu Gardens and Pudong. We started the morning with a »
April 2007 - China -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our first day in Shanghai begun with a nice long sleep in, not having to catch a plane or go anywhere in particular is great. I eventually forced myself out of bed, stumbled into my clothes and out the door at about 1030. We decided »
April 2007 - China -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Up at 6am (it takes a while for Mum and Dad to get ready; they need to have breakfast), car at 8, airport at 9, plane at 10, Shanghai airport at 12, Hotel at 2pm. That’s the morning, lets move onto the good stuff. »
April 2007 - China -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 months of planning and with only one full day in Xian there was no doubt in anyone’s mind what we would be doing; it was afterall the reason we came to Xian in the first place… The Army of the Terracotta Warriors. The »
April 2007 - China -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We flew out of Beijing this morning to Xian. Xian is the a former capital of China (about 3000 years ago) and is the end of the Silk Road. So history is basically oozing from this place. The city itself is surrounded by a wall »
April 2007 - China -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Tuesday the sky was blue, it was the talk of the town so you can imagine how often that happens here. After two days in Beijing there was really only one major site left to see and on this smogless, cloudless day we couldn& »
