well this is truely an amazing city and you dont feel like there are 16 million people here. I have never seen so many skyscrapers in my life and i must say that the architecture is amazing and there are some beautiful buildings here. I know for sure that I and my cousin Esme would never like to live in one of them though as i could not imagine having to go in one of those lifts every day!!!! It gives me heart palpitations just thinking about it. Our hostel is brand new and state of the art The Koala International [View Full Entry]

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Well the train journey to Hanzhou was fantastic. Everything went well the train pulled out of the station ontime, we got what we wanted two lower bunks, soft sleeper, clean bedding supplied clean toilets (of the squat variety of course) and the scenery moved. It was brilliant. At first we we followed the river which looked very dirty the towns looked dismal with a lot of hydro electric scemes along it. The motion of the train soon had us dozing off, watching and then eating as the food trolley whizzed by with delicious food - cabbage, chicken, tofu and rice it [View Full Entry]

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Well here we are in China on Gulang Yu Island and its been raining since we got here! How did we get here?? Well we got the flight that left late and instead of arriving at 8.30p.m we got in after 9.30 and then could only change US$50 at the airport and it was Saturday night so we knew the banks would be closed on Sunday. We could not phone the guest house as we did not have the number -what i thought was the number was the area postal code. Well the taxi took us to town no sweat till [View Full Entry]

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Hi there still in Cape Town! but hey I think I have managed to add a whole lot more of you onto my blogg. So if you dont want to read the ramblings of an older backpacker please let me know and I will delete you from my list. Otherwise I will try and keep this updated with my travels. Next hurdle is to add the pics! SO if this is your firstime, welcome. [View Full Entry]

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Well its a very elated Sunday and one week to go till I leave for Bangkok. Today we beat the Aussies in amazing style that I think will go down in history and so South Africa is elated once again and thanks to Graham Smith and the Boys you did a great job!!! Well Barbs please let me know if you get a notification of this update. Dont know if its connecting correctly. [View Full Entry]

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Well its just over a week to go and I am still trying to get to grips with this blogg site so bear with me please. I thought I had published another page and this is the third but I only get the first up when I look so I hope you my friends are getting the whole deal. Lets see [View Full Entry]

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