So here we are in China. Some interesting sights and smells have greeted our eyes and noses...! The first leg of our Chinese journey landed us in Beijing for 11 nights. Seeing as China is so open to their people having their own feelings and expressions (ahem...!) Facebook is banned, but I did however discover that Instagram has yet to be discovered by the Chinese powers that be! So we have found a small outlet for our thoughts, or namely photos! So if you want to have a look at some photos from our time so far then you can check out my profile on that...my username is sarahf85. I am reliably informed (by Will) that we will be reunited with Facebook when we get to Hong Kong in late November. So I shall recall our ... read more

Well it's almost time for us to go! We fly on Monday at 13.00. It's a 12 hour flight to Tokyo and they are 8 hours ahead so we will land around 1am UK time and 9am Japanese time. Just about ready to go, almost packed and have all the necessary items, just need to get it all together and tie up some loose ends! Just a last few goodbyes to say over the next 3 days (sniff sniff, sad times!) Starting to get excited and also nervous, can't believe it's nearly here. Hopefully we will have Internet fairly regularly to get on here and on Skype. My username for Skype is sarah_fairbairn1 if anyone would like to add me as a contact. Chantelle is taking her ipad so when we have wifi we can use ... read more