If this was the first picture we showed you, you would think we were in a really posh hotel!

This is the wine and Swiss chocolates we bought in Duty free at the train station. We didn't have a corkscrew (I know - I can hardly believe it meself!) but the helpful conductor chappie sorted us out after Alan went and made some POP noises at him while making a sign to indicate a big corkage from the top of the bottle. Amazing how you can get by with sign language if you are desperate enough!

Not quite the Orient Express, but it'll do us fine!

May 18th 2006
This is the Eggs, coming to you from somewhere on a train track, vaguely near Shanghai......... Typhoon Chanchu didn’t really affect us after all and we were able to check out of our hotel yesterday as planned, and take ourselves down to Kowloon’s ‘Hung Hom’ station in Hong Kong to catch the 15:00 hrs K100 train to Shanghai. We were particularly pleased that the arrangements hadn’t ch ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more

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