Tungxi

Our travelling companions having left for home, yesterday we left Shanghai for a 5 hour bus journey inland to Tungxi so we can make our way up China's most beautiful mountain tomorrow.  No worries Rory, this is nowhere near 5895m, but it is supposed to have some cracking scenery.  This was a slight change of plan as we were hoping to make out to Putuoshan island, but a typhoon warning saw to
that trip.  We were looking forward to having empty beaches - I'm told that the Chinese (similar to what I have seen in India) do not go in for tans.  In fact, quite the opposite, a lot of the facial creams have some form of bleach in them I hear.  The grass is always greener - on the plus side, it must make me some
form of supermodel.

My only other reflection for you for now is that most Chinese toilet rolls I have seen do not have a hole in the middle of it.  Make of that what you will.