hi! glad you're back home - have missed the contact! we're having a great

moon in china. Hongkong was UNREAL - i loved it. there was so much hustle &

bustle..the city is thumping with commerce...neon adverting signs are

crammed into every available spot, billboards everywhere markets, shops and

more shops .the streets are alive with consumers, shopping and eating....

Surprisingly there's also a stack of character to the city, the backstreets

of hongkong island are a maze of cobblestone allies which work their way up

the steep hills that are the backdrop for the city..and there was greenery

too. It was a brit/asia fusion works well.....skyscrapers covered in bamboo

scaffolding...packed subway system full of funky young hongkies being told

to 'please mind the gap' as they alight at Mong kok station for the

night-time markets..double decker trams cruising past hundreds of yum cha

stands. what a city!

we're now in guangxi province..and it's a total change of pace... so sleepy

and laid-back. The scenery here just can't be described and it's really

unlike anywhere else we've been. Huge limestone karst peaks jut out of the

earth, covered in greenery, intermingled with green rice paddies and clear

green rivers...We've spent the past two days cycling to look-outs and tiny

villages..where we'd swim with water buffalo and have lunch on the river

banks in bamboo huts. It's so nice and tranquil here...hypnotic even.

anyway, there's a cool tsing tao beer waiting for me outside, i better not

let it get warm. will write more soon, now that you're home.

hope rinnie's being well-behaved - remember 'the rinnie-stick' comes in

useful in times of despair.

Thanks again for a wonderful wedding - we had a ball, you two are the

greatest ever! Really, it should be you on the holiday unwinding, not us!

lots of love Caraxxxx