Day One

So, we have eaten lots of chow mein, now bring on the pain

72km of hot, dusty, busy, noisy heinous cycling down a straight main 
road. lunch was spent sat on used sanitary towels amongst half-dead soot
 covered roadside plants and the ice-cream i bought to cheer myself up 
was pea flavoured. Today was categorically the most unpleasant days 
cycling in living memory. Who's stupid idea was it to cycle through 
China, I was left thinking at the end of the ordeal.  ( by Chris)