We had a long night. First, my feeble attempt to grow a beard has been vetoed. It seems i’m genitically incapable so I spent some time removing the scraggly growth from my face. Have to admit it feels much better. It’s been great to have good facilities for a few days – I’ve been abusing the shower twice a day. What a luxury. Have to say thanks again to Martin. That washing line is proving invaluable – you would be amazed at what we have attached it to 🙂

I decided to have a closer look at our budget and panic set in. The trip will be over in 2 months if we just go where we really want so we have had to make some changes. A few hours of painful plotting and discussion and we are back at our original plan. Hong Kong, back into China, southern route to Tibet and then backtrack (which we really don’t want to do) into Northern Vietnam. So Nepal and the Philipines are out (at the moment). We also HAVE to do something about a camera – V’s old Nikon is getting worse by the day – possibly in Hong Kong. Oooo I see the new iPhone is already available there NO NO bad boy.

Met a chap at breakfast who has been travelling from the places we are wanting to go to. We are feeling a bit more confident that southern China will be cheaper and SE Asia even more so. We will just have to see how things go.

Off to cycle the wall aroud the city.

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