Day 366 - A derserved rest to bring in year 2

Although this is our 366th day on the Adlibing Asia Tour, it actually marks our year in Asia as 2008 is a leap year, so we gained ourselves and extra day! We decided to make the most of our extra time in true relaxed holiday style.

Here is a recap of today's events as told by mumbles and pops, with our additions:

So today was officially a rest day, after a good sleep in and much creaking of joints to get out of bed we pottered around, had breakfast in our room and did a bit of planning for the next couple of days. We are staying here tonight and tomorrow night as there is no accommodation in Hangzhou until Monday night so we'll head there on the early train/bus on Monday and probably stay there for one night, 2 days then head to Shuzhou for a couple of days before heading off to Shanghai and the adlibing crew returns to two!
After our planning we did a bit of reading of the planet and found a village called Shexian which is only about 45 minutes away by bus that has the only surviving 4 sided stone entrance gate or something like that: - so off we walked to get the bus waving it down on the side of the road -probably quite good for the joints actually. Stayed in the village a couple of hours wandering the old streets and trying to avoid the mega-phone wielding tour group leader. We successfully managed to veer off the main trails into yet more Chinese alleyways hidden from the tour groups but available to those willing to do it their own way (the adlibing way). Now it's nearly time to head out for something to eat and probably none of us will complain about a relatively early night tonight! It's been a really warm day today, no sun to speak of but probably around 32 - 34 and very humid, so some of the crew are just enjoying it knowing that in less than a week they'll be lucky to be in double figures! The other 2 crew-members are dreading as well as looking forward to a year of these sort of temperatures!

A final word from mumbles and pops - we are still thoroughly enjoying being included in the adlibing adventures and though we are looking forward to some aspects of coming home we haven't got tired of the Asian adventure. Food is still great,people friendly, weather beautiful and of course being with Liv and Adam makes it perfect.

The adlibing adventure continues.