Aimed to wake up vey early today but ended up oversleeping, then matthius and I left for the station to see about travelling aroud, him to beijing and I to hungzhou. As we got to the station we met renauld coming the othe way and arrange to meet up later.
Got to the station and queued at the "English counter" for our tickets for around half an hour with various people pushing in all aroun us while we queued like good little Brits! I just aske To go to hungzhou and was handed a ticket and charged £7 for the 2 hour journey. Bargain!
We met the others and hole they bought their tickets went to the poshest coffee shop i've been to with lots of posh waitresses an the whole staff greeted us individually! How odd! Had a nice iced coffee and then went to the shop next door selling back alley phones, I was tempted but now u know where it is I will check my finances when I end up here!
We then all had some lunch and headed to the peoples square where there were lots of fake cars, a Chinese version of the new mini for 3.500 gbp! Brand new!
We then saw hundreds of old people with signs standing in the park and were confused until an old man explained that they were parents with unmarried children meeting up to arrange a potential date for their child! Crazy! He then said many Chinese want western partners and would we be interested! We politely declined but it was very odd.
We walked down the main shopping road to the bund and from there watched the boats on the famous skyline of pudong with many photos!
We headed to a back alley place for a tasty beer before heading back to take more photos with the lights on, the number of boats was amazing to see, a constant stream day and night.
After walking down the bund we fancied a goodbye dinner so found a resteraunt off the main street with no English speakers and an unusably translated menu! After ordering 4 random dishes to share and a few beers we ate 5 lovely dishes (no idea where the last one, sugered corn, came from) we were full and happy and everyone ate, with rice and beer and green tea for an expensive £12! it was great!
We headed back on the Metro and parted ways with Launa enroute and then stayed in the hostel with some older German Guys, matthius, renauld and an American guy out here teaching English who offered me a possile job in a small town nearby and the chance to see the town with him this week if I would like. A cool guy, we stayed up till 4am talking and drinking and laughing at British and American stereotypes. He is the least americanish American I have ever met!
Travelling tomorrow, woo!
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