Thursday 3 February 2011

Cangnan to hangzhou...again

Up at half 7 to head to hangzhou but didnt sleep until half 3 so a pretty painful start.
Walked the mile to the station in a gorgeous sunny morning through the debris from the fireworks and was amazed at how quiet it was, the two main roada that are usually 3 lanes each way of solid traffic had the occasional car or taxi and the usually bustling station was unusually peaceful.
Caught the train and slept the first hour before everyone piled on at the same stop as last time. Was then next to a couple and a todler and the todler was fascinated by me for the next 2 hours, i tried to teach it some english but no luck!
They then left and were replaced by 2 middle aged women who brough out a big bag of small fruit with seeds which they piled in front of themselves and proceeded to eat spitting the seeds into the train sick bags. Yuk!
From the train i booked a ticket back for the 10th from here to cangnan but the last train leaves at 16.40, my flight lands at 15.00. I booked anyway and went to my hostel where i discovered it is actually 30km to the airport, a good 40mins, and since in china you check into your train a good 20mins early i figured i wouldnt make it so went back and got a refund on my ticket.
Suddenly felt so tired so retreated to my hostel to read and doze until bed time, its going to be a long day tomorrow!

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