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Day 7

31 Oct 18

Everybody was of course tired in the morning, but once out training all seemed good. This was a really nice bamboo forest with nothing but leaves on the ground in...

Day 6

30 Oct 18

The bus departure was 7am to give us time to reach the third and final opening ceremony in Yixing. This was in a park with quite an impressive background to...

Day 5

29 Oct 18

This morning we had the second opening ceremony in an old town square. It was quite similar to the previous one, and Meadow made us proud by giving the speech...

Day 4

28 Oct 18

All the coach rides today were quite short, the first one being to today’s training, leaving the hotel at 8am (actually 8.30 by the time everybody had managed to get...

Day 3

27 Oct 18

Meadow was bitten by an evil-looking centipede in the night, which much have been rather traumatic but didn’t seem to cause any harm worse than a wasp sting. The hotel...

Day 2

26 Oct 18

Another early start at 7am, but another two hours of bus time for catch up. This time we were in a forest by a reservoir. It appeared that unlike the...

Day 1

25 Oct 18

It was a 7am start for breakfast. There was a huge variety of things on offer with both western and Chinese options available. We then drove about two hours to...

Travelling out

24 Oct 18

We all met at Heathrow and flew to Shanghai, changing planes at Beijing. In Beijing we had to give our fingerprints. In Shanghai we had a bit of trouble finding...

China website online

11 Jul 18

The China website is online!

China 2017, by Imogen Wilson

15 Dec 17

I was very excited when my Mum told me that my brother and I had the opportunity to take part in the ‘One Belt, One Road’ international youth orienteering camp...