Sorry for not continuing going through our “ Want to do and see” in China. We seem to have hit a brick wall with DialAFlight…. Having had many years great service from Rosie Price and thoroughly recommending her to every one….since she has left the company we haven’t had the same level of service at all….Rosie would facilitate our desired itinerary by booking through an on the ground agent. When they couldn’t match price the hotels Rosie would book the hotels through booking.com. She would also always give us a price regardless of whether it was higher than we predicted or not…..BUT having waited 3 weeks for a quote on our itinerary our response was “Sorry we can’t help you” …..grrrrr…so now I’ve put it with a local independent travel agent to see what they can do for us…then if they can’t help we’ll start the long hard slog of contacting a variety of other agents and putting the trip out to tender……Not ideal….but these things happen…. SO I’ve stopped planing until we know we can actually find a company to manage it for us…as it’s our first time in China we don’t really want to go completely solo for many reasons…not least because we don’t want to miss out on sights, struggle to buy train tickets and get on the right train etc, etc….

However we have a 3 week trip around Scotland planned for May…so I’ll post the planning document in the near future…