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From our hotel in Beijing we got a taxi to Beijing East station where we would catch out train to Xi'an to see the Terricotta army. We paid the taxi man and made our way to the entrance and to where you get your bags scanned. These scanner are the same as the ones you get in airports where to place your things on a conveiour belt the things go through and get scanned by the xray machine. Rach placed her bags on the scanner then I put my handbag, day sack onto the scanner floowed by my back pack which was on my back. I place my backpack on the belt only to realise that I was attatched to my backback by something, by this poit my bag was off and through the plastic dangly things and I was going with it. Also at this point I had lost my footing so my feet had left the ground and I was on tiop of my backpack proceeding to go through the scanner aswell. Rach rushed over and un attatched me from my bag, I went to get up but realiesed something else was attatched, by this point, Rach having thought she'd saved the day had gone through the mentle detector already to collect our stuff, I on the other hand was still floundering about on the xray machine. In sheer panic and thinking I was gonig to be scanned I simply put my arms around my backpack and rolled myself and the backpack off the side of the machine. I looked up afterwards to find two locals trying to unhook me and one trying to pick my back up, they were also laying across the machine, me and my bag. With a little more commotion I was freed and we all got up off the floor. By this point Rach had realised I wasnt free after she left at all and was in fits of laughter. Eventually my bags went through the scanner, minus me, and the gentleman who had help unhook me carried my bag to thedeparture lounge for me, which was nice.
We got onto our train and settled into our Hard Sleeper cabin. 12 hrs later at 7am the next day we arrived at Xi'an and were met by the Hostel who were picking us up and taking us back to the hostel.
After we had got checked into our room and had some breakfast me and Rach went to the City Walls to have a lok round. The City walls are 14km long from start to finish so we thought it best to hire a tandem bike and bike round. After we finished our Tandem bike ride we went back to the hostel for some hard earned grub and to meet up with some people we had met in the train station for a few drinks in the bar. I was still carrying around a 1ltr bottle of Vodka from lankawi (6 weeks previous) I dont know how it survived that long but it did, so we took it down to the bar in my bag and saved ourselves a few quid by buying orange and topping up from my magic bag, needless to say the bottle went and organe juice had a very strange effect on us. Very drunk I staggered to bed before Rach and left her too it.
To be continued....... I have a headache!!!x
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