Merry Christmas!

So much to say, so little time, so to summarise-

Since we have left the home comfort of Shanghai we have
Seen a 71m Buddha carved into a cliff
Been photographed by more Chinese Tourists than the Buddha has been
Seen the Terracotta Warriors
Learnt Chinese, from 'get lost' to 'I'm a poor student'
Climbed to 3070m only to find we were still in the cloud and had visibility of about 20m
Stayed in a Monastery
Been sick
Cycled through incredible karst landscape through rice paddies and orange groves
Taken a bamboo raft down the Li River
Travelled over night in both soft and hard sleeper (after the cockroaches, snoring and cigarette smoke in hard sleeper I relented and allowed one journey in soft and I can confirm it was lovely)
Enjoyed the sunshine in Dali
We are currently looking forward to turning all our train videos into a film (yes Suzannah makes a guest appearace singing in Dutch), looking at our photos, having clean underwear every day and, most of all, telling you about all of the above.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!