Hi all, Another brief note to say we're now spending our final night in China in the town of Nanning which is near the Vietnam border. From Hong Kong we got the train to Guangzhou, where we stayed one night, and then yesterday we took a 13 hour (!) train journey to Nanning. Our first impressions of China were not great, as compared to Hong Kong, Guangzhou was much dirtier and polluted with a lingering smog which meant you couldn't see more than about 50 metres. All of a sudden there were no English speaking people, no English translations and no other English/Western people apart from us! So we left Guangzhou pretty quickly, and thankfully Nanning is a much cleaner, friendlier place, full of trees and green (ish) avenues. Although everyone still stares at us as ... read more

Hello! There's a queue forming for the internet, so just a quick note to tell you we are here in Hong Kong! We have spent the day wandering round Asian Markets, up Victoria Peak for spectacular views of the city and in veeeery posh shops in Times Square. A lot of things are in English and many people wear surgical masks :s Anyway, we'll update soon with much more detail and photos! A and R x... read more

With 10 days to go until we leave for Hong Kong, we thought it would be good to start a blog which follows our journey...... read more