Monthly Archives: November 2017

We are on our last night in Tibet and although sad to finish it I must be candid. I am looking forward to the luxury of home.  Tibet is not for the faint hearted.  The dilemmas start early morning when it as been -11°C about 20°F and you’re deciding whether to wear one or twoContinue reading “Final days in Tibet.”

We had a long journey to Tibet, staring out at 3.30 am and arriving at 18.00.  To say we were tired was an understatement however we were met charmingly by our guide Tse Wang with white silk scarfs.  I had been warned by someone who was horrified that we were spending 8 days in TibetContinue reading “Tibet”

We’ve just had a taster of everything in Shanghai and it’s certainly a place I’d love to return to. Vibrant. fun, stylish, opulent energetic and varied.  The wonder of Shanghai is that they have managed to create a style that blends the best of Western and Eastern fashion.  The buildings are unique and clothes subtlyContinue reading “Confucius say “Learning without thinking is useless, thinking without learning is dangerous””

  We were sad to leave Guilin and Ian our guide who took us to the ‘off track’ places where  as Pat would say, we really got to ‘smell the roses’. When we landed in Chongquin, the biggest city in China with a population of 32 million (and I’ll bet no one who is readingContinue reading “Cruise on The Yangtze River and The Three Gorges Damn.”