Welcome to China

And a warm welcome it is too. I must have sweated at least 12 buckets
today! Anyhow, I have actually written a great blog entry all about
my fantastic 44-hour crossing to Shanghai - but for some reason I
can't connect to my server via FTP, and both Flickr and Blogger seem
to be partially blocked too - thus I can't upload the 300+ photos
I've taken, and thus the blog entries I've written won't make sense!
So it seems to be a case of being patient, and waiting till I get to
my friend's house in Beijing in a couple of days.

Apologies!