Tuesday 30 October – One of the difficulties you face in China is ‘The Great Fire Wall of China’. The Great Firewall blocks foreign websites, apps, social media, emails, instant messages and other online resources deemed inappropriate or offensive by the Chinese authorities. So you can’t get on google, Facebook, WhatsApp, Yahoo, AOL etc.

To get round this you download a VPN (Virtual Private Network) and use this to connect you to the internet.  But the Chinese authorities know this so they try to block the VPNs and yesterday they managed to block the VPN we were using.  But today our VPN is back in business having re-routed their traffic in a different way. So apologies for no update yesterday.