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- Mon 1 Sep 2008 at 18:16
With our "Japan - Been there, done that" t-shirts now safely packed away in our bags, it's nearly time for the second last leg of our travels. China.
As you may already have read in our other online journals (on the original 101 site - which has more bad words) for Lindsay, getting in to this country was more difficult than getting in to a girl. But, unlike the endless struggle to find a mate, entrance to the motherland was granted - success!
We'd love to be able to comment on the efforts of Team Britain - but Lindsay (if you look at his pictures) has absolutely no interest in sport whatsoever and Lee was too busy lapping up the sun in Bali, and Australia.
After the Japan Challenges were attempted with the little or no success end results, we decided to take a nice little break from each other. No fall out involved... this time. Lindsay always wanted to see Japan (the highlight of his year in terms of countries) and Lee had never wanted to see Japan - so, he opted for going back to Indonesia for a couple of weeks to chill out. The tan difference between the two of us is going to be almost comical.
This little journal entry is being written with Lindsay already in Shanghai and Lee over its skies - he's flying in to Beijing. The younger of us has already endured 8 days of China after a 48 hour ferry trip from Osaka. On day 2 of the Chinese experience - Lindsay got his bank card nicked and 2800 quid was spent on it. 5 days were thereafter spent shaking, quivering and sweating over the will-he-or-won't-he get it back.
Welcome to China.
Luckily though, fraud departments at financial institutes actually do what they say on the tin, and every penny is being refunded to our now, very happy little boy.
Lee has had no dilemas over the past 8 days other than the difficult choice of playing it safe with sun-factor 35 or gambling a little and opting for sun-factor 12 (for a more even and darker, honeycombed tan)
Lindsay's off to Hong Kong tomorrow (2nd September) for two nights and Lee will, after sorting out a few challenges 8,02332 miles away in Beijing, will head down to Shanghai on the 5th. We'll both meet up, conveniently enough, on the 6th - a Saturday... a Saturday night. Excellent opportunity to Parteeeeeeeeeee and then spoon again!
We only have 40 days in China and a hell of a lot of great challenges to do - our new motto (other than f*ck it) is, "can't be as bad as Japan" Let's hope it isn't.
We've managed to learn a little Chinese for the next Challenges and here's a little lesson. Ni Hao means Hello. That's nice and simple isn't it. Now here's the best part. We get to swear. Xie Xie (pronounced Shit Shit) means hello. There is nothing better in this world than walking up to a cop, a teacher, a small child, an elderly woman on her last legs or a beautiful girl and shouting Xie Xie with a great big smile on your face - the crescendo of the climax comes only when any of the aforementioned don't punch you and offer a big smile back - followed with a happy Xie Xie too. Xie is everywhere!
That's all we know. But that's all we need. We're just going to spread the Xie.
On another note, after having failed so badly at finding a Japanese Rachel, Lindsay's very, very impressed with the high calibre of the Chinese females. Perhaps it's time to move on. Can there be a Chinese Belinda out here?
Anyhoo, China has long been a country we have been looking forward to visiting due to the scale and diversity of the Challenges we've been set there. Challenges include joining a circus and learning acrobatics, staging a “Loch Ness Monster” type sighting, travelling to the Wudang Mountains to live in an ass kicking Kung Fu monastery, and among so many others we also have the crème de la crème of our missions... the 101 person conga on the Great Wall itself. Successful or not, this should be a great 40 days!
We have no idea how these challenges will turn out but we do know that each and every one of them stimulates us in ways that only non family members and the opposite sex can do.
As you may already have read in our other online journals (on the original 101 site - which has more bad words) for Lindsay, getting in to this country was more difficult than getting in to a girl. But, unlike the endless struggle to find a mate, entrance to the motherland was granted - success!
We'd love to be able to comment on the efforts of Team Britain - but Lindsay (if you look at his pictures) has absolutely no interest in sport whatsoever and Lee was too busy lapping up the sun in Bali, and Australia.
After the Japan Challenges were attempted with the little or no success end results, we decided to take a nice little break from each other. No fall out involved... this time. Lindsay always wanted to see Japan (the highlight of his year in terms of countries) and Lee had never wanted to see Japan - so, he opted for going back to Indonesia for a couple of weeks to chill out. The tan difference between the two of us is going to be almost comical.
This little journal entry is being written with Lindsay already in Shanghai and Lee over its skies - he's flying in to Beijing. The younger of us has already endured 8 days of China after a 48 hour ferry trip from Osaka. On day 2 of the Chinese experience - Lindsay got his bank card nicked and 2800 quid was spent on it. 5 days were thereafter spent shaking, quivering and sweating over the will-he-or-won't-he get it back.
Welcome to China.
Luckily though, fraud departments at financial institutes actually do what they say on the tin, and every penny is being refunded to our now, very happy little boy.
Lee has had no dilemas over the past 8 days other than the difficult choice of playing it safe with sun-factor 35 or gambling a little and opting for sun-factor 12 (for a more even and darker, honeycombed tan)
Lindsay's off to Hong Kong tomorrow (2nd September) for two nights and Lee will, after sorting out a few challenges 8,02332 miles away in Beijing, will head down to Shanghai on the 5th. We'll both meet up, conveniently enough, on the 6th - a Saturday... a Saturday night. Excellent opportunity to Parteeeeeeeeeee and then spoon again!
We only have 40 days in China and a hell of a lot of great challenges to do - our new motto (other than f*ck it) is, "can't be as bad as Japan" Let's hope it isn't.
We've managed to learn a little Chinese for the next Challenges and here's a little lesson. Ni Hao means Hello. That's nice and simple isn't it. Now here's the best part. We get to swear. Xie Xie (pronounced Shit Shit) means hello. There is nothing better in this world than walking up to a cop, a teacher, a small child, an elderly woman on her last legs or a beautiful girl and shouting Xie Xie with a great big smile on your face - the crescendo of the climax comes only when any of the aforementioned don't punch you and offer a big smile back - followed with a happy Xie Xie too. Xie is everywhere!
That's all we know. But that's all we need. We're just going to spread the Xie.
On another note, after having failed so badly at finding a Japanese Rachel, Lindsay's very, very impressed with the high calibre of the Chinese females. Perhaps it's time to move on. Can there be a Chinese Belinda out here?
Anyhoo, China has long been a country we have been looking forward to visiting due to the scale and diversity of the Challenges we've been set there. Challenges include joining a circus and learning acrobatics, staging a “Loch Ness Monster” type sighting, travelling to the Wudang Mountains to live in an ass kicking Kung Fu monastery, and among so many others we also have the crème de la crème of our missions... the 101 person conga on the Great Wall itself. Successful or not, this should be a great 40 days!
We have no idea how these challenges will turn out but we do know that each and every one of them stimulates us in ways that only non family members and the opposite sex can do.
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