First Hostel

I got an e-mail today confirming that my payment for my first hostel in Beijing was received. It was a bit of an arse as i had to transfer the money from my bank to china at a cost of £21. But alas, there is no other way of transferring the monies apparently. I spoke to Western Union, but they can only do it if there is someone at the other end waiting to pick it up. At least its done now!

Camera Buying

Not a lot to report right now, so i thought I'd share some of the books and stuff that I've read so far.

I've read Rough Guides First Time around the World and First Time Asia, and also Lonely Planet's Gapyear Book. Personally I prefer the Rough Guides style, although they do seem to have a fair amount of grammatical errors in!

A great resource for anyone thinking of doing anything similar is Gapyear loads of great info and the forums rock!

I bought my camera yesterday, so have been getting to grips with it. Its a Ricoh Caplio R7, I was going to get the R6, but saw the R7 was getting released was better, and didn't cost much more :D expect loadsa random photos on my facebook!