China was good; just good, nothing more, nothing less. It was a very intimidating experience and I extremely overwhelmed throughout the entire trip. *FYI* for this trip I'm going to post minimal "diary entries" of the days and more just photos. China was not as I expected. I visited both Beijing and Shanghai and they were vastly different, I'll explain further throughout the days.    I was aware that China's first language isn't English but I thought, due to the amount of tourists, they would understand basic English - I was wrong. It was extremely difficult to communicate throughout the country and there were days where I just couldn't be bothered trying and so I just spent the day to myself and ignored civilisation; have to admit, those were pretty good days. Another annoying thing was that, due to the political state of the Republic of China, all social media access is blocked which was honestly the most difficult aspect of the trip!!!!
Enough rambling!

- Emma xo