Mountain climbing

Again I was up and showered before Chris even got out of bed and I had a craving for a tasty croissant for breakfast. Giving Chris his half hour notice I walked off to a nearby bakery. Unfortunately they were out of croissants by the time I made it there but I grabbed a nice cup of coffee, something I am really missing, and two things that looked kind of like croissants with meat in and choosing them over the mini pizzas.
Heading back to find Chris still asleep I went into reception to wait.
I tried a small corner of my baked thing and hated it so drank my coffee and waited for Chris.
He eventually appeared looking haggard, the night had been horrible for him on these lovely hard mattresses. He tried a big mouthful of breakfast despite my warning before spitting it straight out, turns out it was dried haddock.

With Chris now looking even greener than before we decided on a Starbucks to wake him up, a coffee and blueberry muffin later he was sorted.

Since the snow had stopped today we decided to head over to where I stayed last time the other side of the giant west lake to see that in the snow and climb the north peak hill.
The very familier k7 bus dropped us off near a small track down to the village and we walked through admiring the snow covered tea fields around us.
The hostel was still there but definitely a summer hostel! My room was lacking and temperature regulation save windows!
We then climbed up the north peak hill to the bushier temple at the top, a nice half hour climb and took many photos.
Around the back of the temple we could see a path in the snow from a few shoes so we followed it and found a much quieter area out the back underneath the high walled temple. Further still we found a small passage towards the next peak along and decided with an hour or twos light we could do it.
We managed it easilly and took some breathtaking pictures looking out over the valleys and the city.

Just before our descent I got a phone call from Eamon at the school sounding a bit worried as the headmaster had introduced a winter camp for some students to improve their oral English starting tomorrow in cangnan!
Eventually it was decided for the day after tomorrow but we needed to book our train as soon as possible!
We even made it back down keeping the light and went back again. To the station.
The line was much shorter and after only 15minutes we got served and got a partial refund on our now impossible Beijing tickets and booked tickets back home.
At such short notice we could get either stainding only tickets for the evening or first class tickets for 7am. For a 5 hour train ride we chose the later and then went back to the hostel to pack, picking up some food on the way.
All packed now and Chris managed to weasel our hostel advance payments back so the loss as not too great, it is a shame though as we were really looking forward to traveling some more, and even had highly converted train tickets! Nevermind, I will sit down with Eamon tomorrow, sort out what is going on and when we are needed, and then book some tickets for whenever we can!
I must also remeberuto check we are getting paid for his winter camp thing.
Early start tomorrow so guess this is GD night! Maybe Chris can stop being lazy and do some blogging too soon!