Profile
Blog
Photos
Videos
Xi'an
10th April
The train got in at 7am and someone collected me from the hostel.
I was cream crackered as i had hardly slept much on the train, but did not want to disturb the other people in my dorm, so hung around til lunchtime and then met some guys that were going to see the terracotta army so tagged along with them.
Only problem was it was absolutely throwing it down, so after careful consultation of the lonely planet as to alternative points of historical interest nearer to the hostel, we ended up getting hammered in the hostel and then going clubbing.
so, eventually to bed and looking forward to a nice lay in, the bedroom door fires open and the lights go on in my room at 7am.
"oi, get that light off" i shouted, still half asleep and hung over.
next thing the owner comes to my bed and says
"where you part of it all last night? the police are here and i am getting my balls busted!"
"eh?"
by now i had woke up big style. "what you on about?" i said, now in a bit of a panic and racking my brains as to if i might have done or said something when i was hammered, and remembered there was a group of us messing around on the streets.
"get your passport, the police want to talk to you" the owner said to me.
then the other lad in the room who had got in after me, said that i was nothing to do with it and walked off with the owner.
ooh some proper scandal..........
turned out 5 of them (brits of course) thought it had been funny to throw things off the roof of the hostel, which is 9 floors up, including chairs and bottles.
(I then thought - good heavens, where is the owners jack russell. but seems they spared him)
turns out it is a very serious offence that carries a prison sentence.
they managed to get away with a £900 fine each, and got kicked out the hostel. they were very lucky. i feel really sorry for the owner, as the place has only been open 3 weeks.
the hostel used to be a very posh beauty spa that went bust, so it is massive and looks more like a 5 star hotel than a hostel, but i was only paying £2.50 a night as it was their opening offer.
not bad eh? i should have stayed longer at those prices.
saw the terracotta army, which was really good, but i am a bit suspicious over the conspiracy theory that it is all just a tourist fabrication..........
seems funny that since their discovery they have built a virtual themepark immediately around the tombs and have not done any further digging? hard to explain, but you need to see it to understand.
the camera seems to have started playing up though as hardly any of the pictures came out in focus, and the video recordings are now really dark.
Typical, as Frank wanted me to take loads of pictures for him. Also i tried to do a video clip for him, and everytime i got inside i could not get near enough to see.
the people on the door starting giving me some really funny looks as i went back in for the 5th time.
would not have minded so much if it had turned out really well.
weather was awful all the time, but met up with some people i had met in Beijing, which was great, only we went out the night before my train left early and got hammered, and i only got a couple of hours sleep, and i am now sat on another train from hell, for 13 hours, but this time with a bad hangover, beer sweats, no windows to open, no aircon, everyone smoking, and the man next to me blowing snot out of his nose on the floor under the table.
i think i am being punished for something in a previous life.
next installment.............fail to plan, plan to fail
- comments