Shanghai to hungzhou

Woke up way too late after last nights drinking till 4or 5, still havnt adjusted to the time here so am ok all day and then feel awake all night!
Got some breakfast and then checked out and wandered to the train station and successfully got on the train to hungzhou which took around 2 hours and was very comfy and so clean, the woman looking after the carriage mopped the floor between each stop!

When I got into hungzhou station I found it was huge, dirty, and filled with nobody to help lost foreigners. I called the hostel and asked them to ask the taxi drivers to take me there as I had not got the Chinese characters for the address and taxis don't read pinyin! (chinese written in western letters)
The taxis all said no as it was too far and it was rush hour so I gave up and walked into the first class lounge with all my stuff and asked for anyone who speaks english, a girl did and she called the hotel for me and found out I should take the number k7 bus to the last but one stop then call a number on my new chinese mobile!
She then took me to the stop and I managed to work out the bus ok!
Once I had got off the bus I called the number and was met by a guy on a bike from the hostel.

He led me down some back streets with his limited English we chatted and came to a very very Chinese guest house on the other side of the lake from hungzhou. I was shown a single room where 2 of the walls have full length windows with amazing views over the nearby hills, it is without a doubt the best place I have stayed ever. The view is amazing and after checking in and settling down they invite me to eat with them which I do, they have a neighbour cook and we eat beef and pork and fresh river fish, the only real fish I have liked, it was gorgeous! But lots of small bones! A girl arrived shortly before dinner and had been to school in new York as a lawyer and spoke good English so we chatted and she stays there every weekend. After Dinner (which they paid for!) they said I should go to the center and see some fountains at night and have a look around so we got the bus (they paid the 20y) and we went into town to watch an amazing fountain display Set to music and see west lake lit up with the entire hill on one side of the lake artificially lit!
We walked around the lake and then said goodbye to the very helpful woman as she had to return to shanghai for the week. We then got the taxi home (again they would not let me pay) and I headed to a comfortably firm bed (wood+2 duvets)
From the things said and the lack of anything English I think foreign guests are very very rare and I love how Chinese the place is, there are no tourists staying here and I have seen none walking around, this is true china and it is gorgeous!
N.b. I walked through some of the most famous tea fields in china between the bus and here, so sureal and so beautiful with traditional people working them as done for hundreds of years and def not a tourist attraction!