Temple of another city god

Was up way before Chris and then he took an incredibly long shower so that we barely left the hostel before midday.
First call was to the station about 20minutes away on foot and great fun walking in the still falling snow. When we got there there were queues right accross the ticket halls and out into the snow and considering how much I hate queueing we decided to give it a miss for now and try again later.
Walking back we saw so many cars with their wheels slipping and just sliding all over the road, and suicidal motorcyclists out in this mess!
We grabbed some food and headed out for Chris to find a phonebox to call home (the one in the hotel didn't work) and I headed out to meet up with a friend.
We met up again at 4 to go to see the temple on thehill behind our hostel.
Chris had a pretty rough time with phones until the 5th one let him argue with the operator until his calling card worked!
We wandered up the hill with snow still falling and had the temple to the city God to ourselves. It is a 5 story pagoda on top of the hill and the views down accross the town were amazing if a bit spoiled by the lift that takes you up the 'ancient' (replica) pagoda.
We walked Down the scenic way through snow covered trees until we hit the road then walked back over to the station to try our luck again.
This time the queue covered 4/5ths of the ticket hall but was at least inside, since it is spring festival and everyone wants to get somewhere we settled in to queue.
45mins later (after a few cheeky queue dodgers) we got seen and booked two tickets to Beijing for the 24th, the only day available!
We stopped off on the way back for some food and ate tasty if a little cold food from one of 5identical buffet restaurants all right next to each other before relaxing in the hostel warmth with a book and a hot chocolate.