It’s been such a busy week I don’t really know how to start, so I’ll take Maria Von Trapp’s advice an choose the very beginning, since the last post anyway, which was Dali.
With James reduced to only one technological gadget (his mobile phone) tensions were running high, so when we arrived in Dali we proceeded [...]

Well readers, Jeannie and I have had an eventful few days which will remain memorable, but for the wrong reasons.  It’s tragic tale, so keep the Kleenex handy.
After spending a few days in Kunming we decided to take an overnight sleeper bus east to the border town of Ruili.  Ruili is the main border between China and Burma and [...]

I shall begin the first blog from China with an understatement of epic proportions: it’s really, really big. I knew it was big before we crossed, of course – it looks massive on the map, it’s bigger than India and it holds 1.3 billion people. But it wasn’t until we’d spent five hours on a rickety, smoke-filled bus, passing [...]

Just a quicky – I’ve just discovered a new gizmo for my mobile phone which sends our LIVE location back to the blog so you can track us in real time. There’s a new map ‘where are we’ on the homepage which shows where we are, as long as my phone is charged and [...]