Last night was another sleeper train night (Xi’an-Suzhou) which was even more fun than the last, but with a far worse nights sleep. More ¥5 (50p) beer got cracked out, and the mother of all games of Never Have I Ever got played. It was a great night which ended when we got told off for making too much noise. That was definitely where the fun ended, because the beds were too short to lay straight but too narrow to lay in the fetal position, and the train had a very poor AC system and a driver with a heavy right foot.
Before I left Xi’an I went shopping with my German tandem buddy to buy a new phone. Walking to the shop and buying a phone took less than 30 minutes, but we then spent a further 2.5 hours trying to find our way back in some pretty heavy rain.
Today I went to the ‘Venice of the East’ in Suzhou, which was essentially just a canal, although it did smell similar to Venice. We sat on a terrace drinking beer, which would have been lovely on a sunny day, but unfortunately it was chucking it down harder than it had been in Xi’an the day before. Conceding defeat on al fresco drinking I went to my hotel, which is not a classy establishment and smells as seedy as it looks.
Love Emily x
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