Making a break for it!

As soon as the term finished we were out of ningbo traveling as quickly as we could! I jumped on a flit up north to taiyuan, a city in henan province. 

I couldn't fly direct from ningbo so I first got a train to hangzhou then flew from hangzhou airport to taiyuan.

I arrived in taiyuan late at night and went straight to the hotel to rest, it was a 10 or more hour trip door to door, with three hours in the airport in hangzhou waiting for the flight!

Arriving in taiyuan one thing was immediately different, the weather! I had left behind the cold 0-3degrees of ningbo and arrived in taiyuan to minus 12! It wasn't snowing but it is a place that gets frequent snow, and there was snow on the ground still from the last snowfall, daytime temperatures here also rarely get above 0degrees, lovely! 

As soon as I checked in I wanted some food so left the hotel looking for something to eat, I found a place with an inside rainforest type glass walled greenhouse, inside it was 30+ degrees C! I had some food from a buffet type deal before heading back for bed.