A full time engineer, a part time blogger and a lifelong tourist
“Bit like driving on the moon this, isn’t it?” said my husband. Although neither of us have been to the moon, I had to agree. We
Our recent road trip to Scotland took us to some of the most beautiful parts of the British Isles: Lochness, the Isle of Skye and
When I visited Krakow briefly early this year, I wanted to visit Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Wieliczka Salt Mine, but I only had one day to
In the previous couple of weeks, I looked at how best to visit China for the first time, and a one week itinerary. In this,
When I told people my first trip to China is only for week, they all asked the same thing. Is one week really enough to
Before my first visit to China last year, I did a lot of research. In this series of posts, I hope to share what I
It was our last day in China and we were approaching the end of our express trip across Beijing (Days 1, 2, 3), Xian (Days
It was our sixth and penultimate day in China and our first (and last) full day in Shanghai. (Read about Day 1, Day 2, Day
On Day 3 of our China trip, we caught the sleeper train from Beijing to Xian. I was quite nervous about this leg of the
It was Day 5 of our 7 day trip to China (Read about Day 1, Day 2, Day 3 and Day 4). Today, we are
Our time in Xian began when we arrived on the overnight sleeper train from Xian. It was Day 4 of our week-long trip to China.
It was our third day in China and the one I had been looking forward to the most. We had arranged a day tour with
It was our second day in China, and it was going to be a busy one. We had arranged a day tour with The China
My story begins when I landed in Beijing Capital airport at 5 am on a Saturday in early November. The British Airways flight from Heathrow
