Hello
Sorry it's been so long since I last wrote - some internet cafes block this website so I'm unable to keep up to date with my blog.
We're now just over half way into our tour of China. The last time I wrote, we were just about to visit the Terracotta army. It was really interesting to see - thousands of them were built by Emperor Qin Shi Huang to guard over his tomb - apparently he was a bit mental. We also saw the man who discovered the first Terracotta warrior - he's a big celebrity in China!
Our next stop after Xi'an was a 2 night cruise down the Yangtze River to see the Three Gorges which we started on Monday 1st June. Ironically, two girls we bumped into on the trip went to Jake's school in Halifax! - we ended up getting on really well with them and spent most of the trip with them.
The Little Three Gorges was one of the highlights. We travelled down a tributary of the Yangtze river to see them in a hydrofoil. The gorges were much more narrow than on the main part of the river, but the cliffs shot up from the water just as far, 40o metres or so. We had a cabin on the boat so we slept on it. The next day, we got up quite early to have a dragon boat race! Slightly random. Then we walked along a sort of floating pontoon along the cliff edge with turned into steps which went into the gorge. The views from up there were amazing. We then made our way back down and watched a rather bizarre Chinese play. We were just about to get back on our boat when we noticed a really long wire stretching between the two sides of the gorge... with a man on a unicycle riding along it! To make it even more strange, someone was hanging off the bottom! To top off the trip, we visited the Three Gorges Dam - soon the gorges will be no more as they will be flooded with water. We're quite lucky that we've seen them as they'll be gone forever - quite sad really.
Next on the list was the bright lights of Shanghai - a slight contrast from the calm and serenity of the Yangtze River. We spent 4 days here in total and managed to cram quite a bit in. My birthday on Saturday was good fun - we visited the tallest building in China, the Jin Mao tower and went up to the top! In the evening, we went out for a Thai and then some cocktails :-) The next day was great fun because we went up another one of the towers, the Oriental Pearl. The views were even better from here as it was night time.
We are now in Hangzhou which is an hour from Shanghai and we're spending one night here. It seems like a beautiful plac - really green and it boasts one of the most famous lakes in China. Only problem is is bucketing it down with rain so we cant really go anywhere :-( Hope it clears up by tomorrow. Tomorrow night we're heading back to Shanghai so we can catch a plane to Hong Kong the next day! Can't wait.
Miss you and will try and write soon xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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costly with us? Oh yes I know………
Its Munro syndrome again NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!!!
Hi Emma,
sorry, I did cut and paste and my previous comment is B*LL**KS
Thanks for keeping us up to date on your travels it sounds as if your China experience has been absolutely amazing.
It was great to hear all the wonderful things you have done, it really helps to create a picture of everything you are all experiencing because when we are chatting on the phone a lot of the description gets missed if you know what I mean.
Im sorry to hear that its been bucketing down, it’s the start of monsoon in India and I presume south China catches some of it
From the stories I have heard you are going to love Hong Kong.
Keep on enjoying your wonderful trip and thank you so much for taking the trouble to write and keep us informed of what is going on. It was nice to hear that you met up with some friends of Jakes… it always helps to make a trip even more interesting.
As you know, we travelled yesterday to Florida, we had a really pleasant trip as the plane had quite a few empty seats, so when I knew there was no one sitting in the central section next to us, I shot across and grabbed a seat and no one else sat central Isle, so eventually when I got tired I slept across the four seats for at least 2 or 3 hours…. It was heaven.There were other people who managed the same, but usually Munro syndrome as Mum and I call it means that we usually miss out.
Munro syndrome did manage to strike yesterday at the airport though.
Mum and I went to nice restaurant and I went up to order the breakfast and was in a small queue of maybe 8 people and there were 3 people serving.I realised that I had to give the server my table number so I nipped over to get the table number, a walk of 20 feet and just as I was returning a group of twenty people got in front of me ! To make matters worse, two of the servers had disappeared so one sever was looking after every person in front and they were all taking their time (like the boy with the peas at the Round o Gras) Then…. After about half an hour
Just as it was my turn to be served both the servers who had disappeared, returned and I was served along with everyone else behind really quickly
NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I nearly did my nut but Mum and I laughed so much about it……
We are now at the Villa and it still looks really nice. When we arrived at Thrifty Car hire I got chatting to a really nice guy from Tunisia and we got on so well that he upgraded us free to a massive car as big as a Caddillac.
I Reckon we could hold a disco for 40 people in the back… its fantastic but why did we get upgraded to such a massive luxury car at no extra cost when its just the two of us and not when we have our whole family with us ??????
Oh yes I know why……………
Its Munro syndrome again NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!!!
Anyway I hope my story makes you and Si and Jake chuckle ……. I just read what I wrote back and its made me laugh………..How mad is that?
Love you shedloads.
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It is great to read about all your comments and experience. you should not be unable to update your blog now its really nice.
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