To keep things friendly and a change of tack....fears are a funny old thing eh?

I did know of one FT with a fake degree who loves beijing and is probably still there, who hated the long flight back to blighty, he saw it as a train whizzing through the air where you cannot get off and cannot sleep, mind you he was on medication for some sleep disorder and some mental problem....never did find out what, but he was the paranoid/racing ideas type, so it could have been something delusional, who knows? Might be worth flogging that car and sticking to public transport, you may well even get a decent price for it.