As anybody in Northamptonshire and surrounding counties will be aware, last Wednesday and into Thursday provided some of the heaviest rainfall we’ve seen in many years, causing widespread disruption and travel chaos. While I wasn’t out in the worst of it, here are a few before and after pictures of the scene between Thorpe Waterville and
The next morning was grey, murky and more akin to the weather us Westerners tend to associate with Beijing. Pete and I were in for a long day. In order to accommodate our request to visit the Beijing Air & Space Museum at Beihang University, we were going to have to whizz around the mammoth Forbidden City site covering
The next morning we were collected from the hotel and taken to the incredible railway station in Zhengzhou to start the real touristy bit of our China adventure in Beijing. It was HUGE and the trains equally impressive. Our taxi driver very kindly sorted out our tickets and guided us in the direction of our
As I’ve still got lots of the China story to tell, I guess I’d best get on with it! The journey from Faku to Zhengzhou started at a fairly respectable hour. For some reason our drive back to Shenyang, from where we’d fly that afternoon, took us down a lovely wide dual carriageway – quite a long