Made it to Tianjin!

Landed in Tianjin at half past midnight and walked straight through non existant security, didn't see a person between the plane and the taxi rank!
After some discussion I persuaded a taxi driver to take me to the hostel.
We drove for 20 minutes until we got to a big overpass near a big building site where the driver made obvious montions that he had no idea where to go from here.
I gave up and called the hostel to ask where it was but found the hostel spoke no English either! In the end I just handed the phone to the taxi driver and let them talk, turns out that the hotel was a hundred meters down a side street next to the road building, my driver drove straight down the wrong way and made general get the hell out motions until I stumbled into the hostel after 1am.

This hostel was another very Chinese hostel similar only to the one in Hangzhou! Basic facilities, a little dirty, but still very cheap! 8 pounds for a private room.

The private room has no window but apart from that was ok, fell asleep almost striaght away.

In the morning I headed into the town center and found out just how big this place is! Gave up on the bus and took the taxi, but taxis are less than a cup of coffee so its no problem!

After spending some time in the center of town and doing a few touristy things and a little window shopping I went back to the hostel. Walking around that area at night I found a river with people ice fishing! And a massive Ferris wheel! Cool!

After some morning Googling I found out that this Chinese town I'm in actually has a population of 13million people, a little bigger than I thought!

After a coffee and breakfast hunt I went to a massive park nearby with more ice and snow, will definitely mark that for a visit! also saw the Olympic stadium and a few other touristy things!