Hangzhou to lingxi

Landed in Hangzhou at 1.20 and managed to get our bags and get the last
shuttle bus into downtown Hangzhou arriving around 2am with no hotel.
We walked to the train station booking office and got two tickets for the
half past 7 train, now just 5 hours to kill! We walked from the station to
west lake past the old street. It was the first time I had seen old street
so empty so I took the chance to take some pictures in the dark.
We walked through a park down to the lake and there we sat looking over the
lake and read a book while watching other people sleeping, taking aromatic
walks and of course fishing for frogs to eat.
We needed a more comfy seat around 4 and so hid in a McDonald's for an hour
with Chris asleep and me reading.
We got the taxi to the train station at around 5 and spent the last bit
trying to sleep on awful metal train station benches.
The train was fine if a little slow at 4 hours but we arrived in time to be
met by elaine.
Despite the fact I got maybe half an hours sleep that night I managed to
book the train tickets for Shanghai and spend a day with elaine without, I
hope, acting too much like a zombie.