Nia Hao!

On Thursday evening we attended a coffee night at Trek HQ here in Beijing. The night was the first monthly meeting of the year and was attended by fifteen people - it was a small affair of Trek fans, store owners and ex-pats. We were made to feel very welcome, we both feel very at home when in the company of fellow cyclists :-) K and I were surprised to find ourselves as the special guests. We ended up giving a small presentation followed by a discussion about our plans to cycle across parts of China. It was a really good night and we met quite a few people and got some great advice for our future plans.

The modern looking Trek office. I felt right at home here :-)


We were also well fed :-)


As a result of some of the discussion that we had that evening we have decided to change our plans and we are planning to head to Lhasa via Xi'an instead of Chengdu. There is so much to see here that we have decided to focus on the areas of Shanxi and Henan, to get more cycling in and to cover less distance - we did rage across India afterall.

Until next time