Woke up early for the train and decided 5 more minutes, woke up again and realised I was cutting it fine so had to run and pack quickly (as i didn't bother last night) fought my way with my bags through the metro to the station and then got lost in the station. It was built to show off for the olympics and it is massive! but not used anywhere near its capactity, very nice and posh though with glass everywhere!
Found my train eventually and realised that since it was a day train all the soft seats were actually 4bed soft sleepers with 6 people booked in, two girls took the top two bunks and I had plenty of space to share with an asian guy on the bottom, could lie out and everything, very comfy!
The train left at 10 and arrived at 8 so was too late for sight seeing by the time i checked in.
I'm staying in a little hostel right near the main shopping district of shanghai, a fish pond in the front and a bar with the world cup on, and friendly staff, its a nice place.
I dropped off my stuff and then did the 2 mile walk down the main street to the bund to see the lights, and then walked back on the side streets to see a bit more of a fun side of it!
Had a few people coming up to me to offer "antiques, watches, rolex, silk, tshirts, clothes, bags, wallets, ipod ipods, fake warehouses, bars, massage, girl massage, ladies, hookers" in that order, in a continual stream of english, i politely declided their generous offer and carried on wandering, spent a couple of hours down the backstreets around the centre and found that only 100m off the main district the tourist numbers drops off completely, and walking through the peoples square park at night was very relaxing!
back at the hostel now and pretty tired, early night then hit some shopping and wandering in the morning I think.
Not sure if I should change hostels as planned or just stay here, I will loose my deposit but that is ok, and then I don't have to bother to move all my stuff around town! I will see if they have space!
Nice to have a bit of a wind down time! but shanghai is so so busy it doesn't feel like it!
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