Sunday 6 June 2010

Expo time and a hotel move!

Woke up this morning a bit jet lagged, took a nice shower and a paracetamol and found that really helped and met up with an English girl I met last night called Launa and Renault the French Canadian for breakfast. We decides to go to a local supermarket to buy some food and bought a random selection of breakfast like steamed buns for 30p and 2 apples for another 90p, fruit seems uitenhage expensive here!
We ate our Breakfast on. The way back to the hotel to varying success ( mine was an odd cold curry flavour bun, a bit odd) and then I made plans to meet up with them later and checked out of my room.
Renault and I had wanted to stay on but had found that there was only one bed left, which I let Renault had as he had been travellig a lot longer (366 days!) and booked another hostel further out of town. Popped over there and as I checked in met a German guy at check in who I was to share a room with and we decided after unpackig to head back to the shanghai expo a massive event where allthe counties build massive stands to show off thier county, fancy.

Also met my other flatmate who I from Ohio and a Bit of a dick, he loves china nearly as much as he loves himself though but recomended taipai, ah well such is hosteling.

Went to the expo and it was crazy! So busy and so so big! I took mattius and me renult and we headed into the expo, we could not take water or other liquids etc onto the park and of course the other guys had lighters nd knives that they had to hide in the flowers outside or loose! We met near the toilets near the English show and went around in a 4.
This show is huge, walking from one side to the other is about an hour and the smallest exibits like cube are the size of a large house, the US and bigger counties were the size of large hangers or bigger, and chinas is a 10-15 story high pavillion, crazy!
The UK one was really cool but just about seeds an nothing to do with England which sucked a bit but was good for photos, we also saw Canada and chille from inside bit the queues were madness, the UK was 1.15 to look in one room! got my first picture taken for being white by some chinese girls, first quietly then they just asked, I didn't mind!
We got in late so by the time we left it was time for me and mat to get the last metro back, we then went for a few beers on a bar q few miles walk away that was very odd, and then got a taxi back,

Lunch was a tasty bit of fried chicken from a hut in a wall for 60p and dinner was chips in the Canada expo to cure Renault homesickness for chipsand cheese and gravy, a national dish!

Must remember to back ip my photos too.

Just found out my only way around the firewallon blogspot (iPod) doesn't work on their wifi! Doh!

Tomorrow booking a ticket to hangZhou before hitting hanghai, maybe give my guide a call! Lol

Hope to update soon!

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