The long way home 3 months of travel from London - Sydney via Asia - where the bananas are cheap, the sun always shines (except when it rains) and everything it possible... for a price!

Gallery: Biking in Yang Shuo

Tuesday, 30 Oct 2007 | Photo Gallery

Biking around YangShuo

Monday, 29 Oct 2007 | Views [1129]

Cherie, Rod and I finally met up again in Yang Shuo which is a small town outside of Guilin - and this time we have managed to actually find a relatively small town to chill out in!! For the first couple of days we did exactly that - chill out, read books, ... Read more >

Tags: Adventures

Gallery: Macau and Hong Kong

Monday, 22 Oct 2007 | Photo Gallery

Gallery: London to Beijing

Monday, 22 Oct 2007 | Photo Gallery

Gallery: Don't forget your hiking boots

Monday, 22 Oct 2007 | Photo Gallery

Gallery: Terrecotta Warriors

Monday, 22 Oct 2007 | Photo Gallery

Gallery: Every bodies kung fu fighting

Monday, 22 Oct 2007 | Photo Gallery

Gallery: Entertaining the masses

Friday, 19 Oct 2007 | Photo Gallery

Entertaining the masses

Monday, 15 Oct 2007 | Views [655]

Finally, I am pleased to say that on arrival in Cheng Du two things were obvious - firstly we had finally arrived far enough South that I can stop wearing everything I owe at once layered on top of each other giving me an abominable sow man type look ... Read more >

Tags: Laughter

Terracotta Warriors

Friday, 12 Oct 2007 | Views [697]

We left Deng Feng at 5am in the morning and headed to Xi'an. I have to admitt that this was no easy feat for me considering that every part of my body was aching due to my day of kung fu. When I say every part I literally mean every part - including ... Read more >

Tags: Sightseeing

Everybodies kung fu fighting

Monday, 8 Oct 2007 | Views [5763] | Comments [12]

Another early start and we boarding what is apparently the best train in China in order to leave Beijing and head to Zheng Zhou which is on route to Shaolin for some kung fu action! We arrived in Zhen Zhou and on first impression it did not seem to ... Read more >

Tags: Adrenaline

Don't forget your hiking boots

Friday, 5 Oct 2007 | Views [1077]

After spending a fairly relaxing day at the temple of heaven yesterday, we got up this morning at 5.45 in order to head to the great wall of China. The sections we went to were Jimshanlyn and Simatai which were suppossed to be a mixture of restored ... Read more >

Tags: I should have known better!

London to Beijing

Wednesday, 3 Oct 2007 | Views [563]

Word of advice: If you are going to up and leave all your friends and move to the other side of the world - have 1 farewell say goodbye and bugger off!!! I decided to stage a series of events over about 2 weeks which means almost every day for 2 weeks ... Read more >

Tags: On the Road