China

We are coming to the end of our time in Shanghai, and tomorrow we leave for Xi'an . This is just a quick post to say we are still going strong but we can't update the blog or facebook due to the Chinese censorship/firewall. Its a bit annoying beining disconnected, but the facebook block was due to the recent riots so its unlikely to be lifted any time soon.

Shanghai has been a bit of a disappointment, because the entire city is undergoing a massive makeover ready for an expo next year. The slogan is "better city, better life" but right now the whole place is one big bulding site. We made it out onto a boat trip today which managed to get us on the other side of the building sites, and we could actually see the city which was nice. The pictures of the buildings they are putting up look great, so if anyone was thinking of coming here, wait until May 1st 2010 =)

Despite that, we've had a few good trips out - last night we had cocktails in the worlds highest bar (I think they mean bar at the top of a man made structure) which was amazing - there was a thunder storm at the same time so the view over the city was really atmospheric. It was pretty pricey though, and we did have to put on our smartest clothes to make them believe we wernt the scummy travellers that we are. Great fun though, highly recommended.

Thast about it for now, I'm working on a way to get updates out more easily so hopefully we'll be able write more soon. Xi'an is teracotta army territory, which we are quite looking forwards to, so fingers crossed we can post some pics then.