Travelling back!

Woke up and looked out the window to find snow in Tianjin! Typical! The day I need to travel away! 

They seemed much better prepared here than in Hangzhou and had gritters out on the roads, and people paid to cycle around with grit bags and grit the paths too, a tough job! 

Found a taxi to the airport and hung around for an hour and a half, went to checkin and was told that my booking didn't exist! Turns out Ctrip had buggered it up and booked it for a different day! I called them up and was told it was also non refundable and I should have checked my ticket more carefully earlier, (lesson learnt!)

Anyway I asked for the next available flight hoping I would get back in time for the new term, luckily there was a flight at 17.10 instead of the 13.10 I was expecting, at £78 instead of the £50 I had already paid!  Ouch! But it did get my home in time to make my connecting train tomorrow morning and so I went for it, just getting a train would have been tricky, and it is an all night mission, and not much cheaper I expect, and so I just went for it! 

Waited in the airport for 5 more hours and got my flight back to hangzhou! The flight was fine, confused a random chinese woman by being polite as we met a door and let her go through first, haha, they really don't expect that here.

Got the bus back and luckily got talking to the person next to me as a woman stood up and announced my stop, If I hadn't got talking I would have stayed on forever!

Walked into the hostel to be greeted with 'oh its you again' haha, got to love a hostel that remembers your face! Same one as before and checked in no problem.

Wandered around a bit and then caught up with emails, going for a coffee and breakfast tomorrow before the train with another friend from hangzhou then back to Cangnan in time for lunch!