Well the idea of trying out the new budget airline to seemed like a good idea and although with some sense of trepidation and visions of chickens it was a good idea! 75 GBP each way plus tax wow! And as good as any other flight I've taken, films - check, perhaps not the latest but not ancient! Food - actually pretty good. Service - as good as anywhere. Only two drawbacks that need to be mentioned, firstly the coffee was truely the worst I have ever tasted and I've made camp coffee from old twigs which tasted better; the last thing was that we were delayed and as a budget airline this seems to be a common issue, not necessarily their fault but on arrival they seemed to have low priority in the queue.

We had two possible flights to catch to Beijing and caught the second unfortunately due to weather our flight from HK was delayed so we would then miss our train from Beijing to Henan.

All however was not lost as we decided to stay over in Beijing and our travel consultant got us a good deal on catching the new high-speed train to Zhang Zhou which started last week. So new train shorter travel time with loads of new features and facilities even reversable seats so you can turn them around to play cards with your neighbours and reclinable too very comfortable.

2007 will see me another year older. So around July time I thought I'd celebrate it with friends and family somewhere nice .....like say China and then go and do something adventurous! Who wants to come and what would you like to do????? Climb mountains, cross seas, eat in every province?