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Sunday 18th November - up 07.30 for free breakfast and to view Shanghai coming up the river - what a sight. When we made it though customs, Susan spotted a Chinese lady holding a sign saying "Susan Elaine" and somehow put two and two together (unlike Laney who was already a mile ahead to find a cab) and realised this was uncle Davids (NZ) colleague. We were kindly escorted to our hostel which Linda wasnt sure was safe enough for us! She came in to check the place out just to make sure we would be ok - we assured her we had stayed in worse! Later that night we were collected and taken out for a posh meal with uncle Davids other associates from Aukland. Jenny and her husband ordered possibly the most delicious Chinese food we will ever eat. Rice wine was brought to the table and being Scots we hammered a few shots then dragged the boys on to a few pubs and a club. Wasnt too long before the rice wine had detrimental effects on Susans health!! Off home with us in a taxi just in time before the Bald chucked her load right outside the front door of the hostel - a good impression we left on our new found friends who were kindly asked to F off!! They responded to this well with a few giggles and the bald made her apologies the next day. Amazing night, amazing people and hospitality and we didnt need to spend a penny.
Monday 19th November - Hit the Bund in the afternoon. Nice views of the skycrapers and underwear hanging out on the street to dry, but the thick smog does not bring out those DAZ effects you see in the adverts. The poor people must think it is all special effects!! The people are not so nice around the Bund constantly staring at our white skin and spitting on the ground. The city is smelly, dirty and far too busy to even move or feel comfortable. We were constantly pressed by dirty Chinese people to buy their s***ty toys, or go to some bleedin tea party with them. We were quick in learning to either ignore them, tell them to F off or resort to violence. After draggin our fattening beer butts up Nanjing Road (possibly the busiest road in the world) we finally made it to Peoples' Square, where we found Shanghai Museum. It was so exciting we spent 30mins viewing some of Rembrandts paintings, took the escalator to the top and then made a boost for PIZZA HUT!! All this history is hard work and works up an appetite pretty quick. After close examination of our map we were sure we knew the quickest route back to the hostel. 2hrs and many many stares later we made it back before dark!!
Tuesday 20th November - Off to train station to buy tickets for Beijing. First experience of Shanghai Subway - holy bejeesus it is crammed to the gunnels and a wee Chinese boy got stuck between the doors. I tried to kick him out but The Bald's mothering nature stopped me from kickin him sqaure in the head. Lucky we didn't go to a tea party to improve our Chinese as there was an English Speaking desk there (well....an English Speaking guy behind a desk). His look of shock after asking for a hardsleeper put the s***s right up us.......what had we just got ourselves into?? b******s!!
Got train at 2000hrs along with another 2000 staring Chinese folk and found our bunks on carriage 12 of about 40. Bunk was better than we expected but the mass numbers of people resulted in a putrid smell of frikin cheesey toes. Susan felt so much more at ease and whipped her booties off straight away!! At 25quid for a 12 hr trip we couldn't really have expected more. One bonus was that we had the bottom bunks and didn't have to disturb anyone if we needed to go to the bung hole at the end of the carriage. We had to tuck our breeks into our socks and wade on into the pee infested swamp. Happy frikin days......what's that song again ? 'Things can only get better' bunch of lyin baw bags.
Roll on Beijing ring a ding ding. Host of 2008 Olympics......bound to be good
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