September 2010

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Chungking Mansions

by Poi September 29, 2010

Recently we went to Hong Kong and decided to stay in the much talked about Chungking Mansions. Here is our review of the building itself and the hostel we stayed at within it.

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We’re BACK!!!

by Kirsty September 28, 2010

We’re back from the dead! (world wide web death anyway!)

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Hong Kong and Victoria Peak

by Poi September 22, 2010

After our first hard sleeper train we were in Hong Kong. After a day of exploring we headed up to Victoria peak to look at the infamous view…

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Lessons of the Road #2 – 4 Showers, 3 Rooms and Suicide Watch

by Poi September 20, 2010

This second lesson if the road comes from our latest not so nice experience that happened on our first night in Xiamen China, it wasn’t nice so check it our and laugh at our bad luck.

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Review of our first hostel – 161 Hostel, Beijing

by Poi September 18, 2010

This was the first hostel we visited on our rtw trip. It was a great introduction into travelling and would recommend it to anyone who is travelling to Beijing

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Random Traveller #24

by Poi September 17, 2010

Although we have hit the road now, we are still looking for new random travellers as we will mix them up between bloggers and “normal” travellers! So this week it’s a blogger….

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Hangzhou!

by Poi September 15, 2010

This post is about our time spent in Hangzhou, after the hussle and bussle of Beijing for two weeks this was a very different place that we instantley both became very fond of. So here’s what we noticed and what we got up to.

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Where are we? Hangzhou.

by Poi September 13, 2010

We’ve left Beijing and now made our way to Hangzhou, which was an experience in itself. How did we get here? what’s our hostel like? what’s Hangzhou like? find out more!

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Random Traveller #23

by Kirsty September 10, 2010

Although we have hit the road now, we are still looking for new random travellers as we will mix them up between bloggers and “normal” travellers! So this week it’s a blogger….

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Jinshanling – The Great Wall Of China

by Poi September 8, 2010

On Monday we completed another one of the must do’s whilst in Beijing, we visited the great wall. We chose to visit the Jinshanling section of the wall and it did not dissapoint, an amazing place.

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