Month: July 2024

Day 75 (28th July) Beijing We spent a somewhat less than enjoyable day at the Summer Palace due to the heat, humidity and enormous throng of people. We got the … Read more

My idea was to take the metro to the International Airport the next morning and bok tickets for the plane to London. Jennifer had a brilliant idea: why not ask … Read more

We travelled second class for 6 hours from Shanghai Hong Qiao station to Beijingnan station. The only difference from first class was that it was much cheaper and we didn’t … Read more

The idea was to get the metro to Nanjing Road East station, find the sign pointing the way to the museum, and go there. Dead easy you might think. The … Read more

The only thing about Shanghai that I had heard of was the Bund, and it is the Number 1 tourist attraction. So we went there via the Nanjing Road East … Read more

Day 70 (23rd July) Shanghai On this kind of trip there are brilliant days, good days, average days, bad days and crap days. This was the latter. The idea was … Read more

We almost missed the Maglev train to Shanghai because we were waiting in the wrong station, but got to the platform just as it arrived. We had had to buy … Read more

It was a case of getting a bus journey of over 5 hours from Fenghuang to Changsha or taking the Maglev high-speed train which took two hours from what, rather … Read more

Nothing much to say today. We went down the road to the riverside and, crossing a bridge, walked down a different side of the river. It was much better than … Read more