WOOOOOOOAAAAHHHHH!!!! Who's turned the heating down?????!!!!!!!

left 'Freedom....well sort of'
below left:'...the hat was is made of genuine polyester skin...very rare.'
Right: 'I can see the moon from here....amazing???!!'

below: hAiRof thE DoG is nEVeR a gOoD cUre foR a haNgover.

below: The karma sutra for exhibitionist freezoephiles is traditional on The Great Wall

Below:Me and me Bruvver overlooking the Great Wall

'Well I'm here in Hangzhou, it was difficult to leave Thailand and missing my travel buddy, but it's amazing to be here! I flew out of Bangkok and straight into Hangzhou and was greeted at the airport by Dons driver, who speaks only a little English with a big smile on his face, brandishing a sign saying:

'HANGZHOU LADYBOY SOCIETY welcomes MR GAVIN MUNRO TO CHINA'

mmmmmm, my brother the joker.....???!!!!!!! It was five years ago when I was hear last and this city has changed a lot....it's good to see that my brothers sense of humour hasn't. It's been amazing so far and I've only, just now got the chance to blog. I met his girlfriend for the first time who is soooo sweet and funny I wonder what the hell she is doing with Don????!!!Only kidding mate, you are The Don. Jenny had arranged for her English teacher to give me some lessons in Chinese, I learnt very little but managed to teach Jenny some English swearwords which sh's already using on Don!!!! Jennifer's got an apartment up in Beijing, which is about a 16 hour drive north and a two hour flight, so we flew up on Friday night and stayed up till the early hours catching up. next day we went to Badaling to visit a section of 'The Great Wall', which is exactly what it is. It was built over hundreds of years and bits were added to it by the different emporers and dynasties, apparantly to keep the pesky Mongolians out. it stretches East to West and is about 30,000 miles long!!!!!

The Great Wall was a brilliant defence but I thought as I stood there, 'Why didn't the Mongolians build 'The Great Ladder of Mongolia'????? That should be one of the wonders of the world as well. Any way it was minus four degrees at the wall so my plans of pitching a tent and staying over night have changed.

It was brilliant though, if you see the picture above, where I'm leaning diagnolly.......is taken with the camera at an angle so if you tilt your head you'll see how steep it was at some points (by the way, those aren't my sunglasses!) That was cool though, then we went back to Jennys apartment, which was class....proper luxury, to prepare for the night out, then fell asleep and woke up at eleven, thinking 'Oh we won't be going out now' but .....we were!!!! I'm full of a cold at the moment so I was being miserable when we went to a night club, which was something like you see on Nip/Tuck, ...out of this world really, it's where all the Beijing rich go and there were Ferraris and allsorts outside, anyway i was being boring and wanted a quiet drink, so we went to Suzie Wongs Bar, which apparantly is pretty famous.....Maybe it's like The World Famous Embassy Club. It was great though and we played 'Chinese Dice' into the early hours and back at the flat Me and our kid put the world to rights until 6am.

Next day we went to Tianamen Square, which is hugeeeeeeeee, really massive, the largest public square in the world and into the forbidden city, which was built by some Emporer dude to keep out the underclass. It was really good, we got a guide who showed us around. It's really weird because a western face in China is still a real novelty to some people, so you get asked to have your picture taken with random strangers, and they all laugh and stare at you|!!!!! Anyway the guide was telling us that the Emporers used to have concubines of about 20-30 mistresses and showed us the building he used to do the business, he would summon one of his Eunochs (who had to be castrated so they couldn't get up to anything) and ask him to 'Bring me a wench' (In Chinese though I think) and the eunoch would toddle off and bring back one of his concubines over his shoulder!!!!!!The weird thing was that the Empresses' building was right next to The Emporers knocking shop!!!!! The forbidden city is huge and I mean, would it have been too much to ask for the emporer to maybe do his doings further away from his missus?????? I suppose no one had the gonads to tell him....quite literally.

Anyway that was fun and we then got a quick piccie by the frozen moat and a slow rickshaw back to the taxi rank. Absolutely top day out though. We flew back last night and went straight to bed. Am contemplating another trip to Beijing after I earn some sheckles. Don and Jenny are the best hostesses and it's good to be pampered!!! Anyway amigos, Adios and keep posting your post things!!!!'
FIONA: HAPPY BIRTHDAY KIDDO!!!!
(2 FOR 1 AT GALA ON A WEDNESDAY-TAKE DORIS AS WELL SHE DON'T GET OUT MUCH!!!LOTS OF LOVE-HAROLD!)