Back on the Road!

Well, after 2 weeks of (for the most part) boredom in Bolton, i loaded up the rucksack and headed to Manchester airport for 3 weeks in Eastern Europe. 3 hours of Jet2.com delays later i arrive in Budapest.

The city is pretty nice so far, with a thriving cafe culture, so not taking things to hard at the moment. Beeen up to the Castle already and tomorrow plan to visit the main square before heading Austria way in the next few days. Not moving around as much this time so more time to enjoy the Beers of the region!

China (the return)

After Tokyo headed back to the largest building site in the world and jumped straight on to the Maglev to whisk me back to Pudong. Slightly dissappointed as it only went up to 300kms/hour rather than the advertised 450 (made worse by the fact that Charlie's went that speed) but still a very impressive ride.

Few days in Shanghai were spent not doing much but i did manage to fit in a trip to the circus. Was pretty impressive (especially when compared to the Chinese State Circus of York last year) and even featured a guy doing football tricks with a huge ceramic bowl (probably a be there thing). Wasn't particularly active in Beijing either (my Bro has a DVD player, so that kind of got in the way of visiting the city), but after 7 1/2 months on the road, i reckon i can be forgiven!