China - Day 663

Well I am pretty excited. I managed to get two pairs of tickets for World Cup matches, one in Moscow and the other in Kazan so I stayed up most of the night arranging travel and accommodation for June 2018. It is phenomenally expensive to stay in these cities, at least round about the world cup it is, so we are doing a whistle-stop tour. Fly to Moscow on June 16th, see a game, overnight train to Kazan on the 19th, see a game, then fly to Harbin (via Dubai and Beijing) on 22nd. All this of course, heaps the pressure onto getting a visa for Yingying. We have applied on line and are going to go to the visa application centre in Shenyang in a week or so to doff our caps at HM Gov and see how it goes