Day seventeen

Just travel today. Before we left the hotel, C asked me how much 15kg was in stone and I answered immediately with 9 stone to which C replied, It’s not 9 stone, Emily. I’ve not been walking around with a person on my back. I was laughing so much I couldn’t stand up. For those interested, it’s more like 2 stone and a bit.

We got to the train station and it was similar to airport security. It took ages and my passport never works so it’s always a right pain. We’d planned to go to Starbucks but ...

Day eleven

We got to the airport and the queue to check-in was ridiculous. We wanted to sit together and the only seats available were the emergency exit row ones. We were allowed to have these seats despite neither of us being able to speak Mandarin which seemed like a flaw in the system to us. We played our game of spend our remaining cash at Starbucks in the airport, got on the plane and arrived in Shanghai.

We stayed at the Grand Hyatt Shanghai on the 77th floor and for the first few days, we were scared of how ...

Day five

We arrived in Kaohsiung, Taiwan and we were here for 1 night. We went to a temple and then to a night market where there wasn’t much vegetarian food so we had mushrooms to share and a passion fruit drink each which tasted like Um Bongo. At the temple loads of coaches and lorries started pulling up and blasting out dance music.

Day six

We had breakfast at the hotel and it wasn’t too great. They had a jam that looked and tasted like Lucozade. The staff were really friendly though. We went to the Dragon and Tiger ...

I arrived in Hong Kong with my mum and we got a taxi to the hotel to drop off my bags. Then we went for Hong Kong pizza, a little walk around and the boat over to the other side and back. I took my mum back to the airport and then C arrived at the hotel later on having come from Disney.

Day one

We started the day at Bakehouse. We loved it there! We both eventually bought Bakehouse socks and I also got a hat. We wandered around the park near our hotel and the waterfront and then ...