(this happened on) 13th November 2010 G&T Take A Bus Tour We awoke feeling almost human, we arose slowly and went out for a breakfast at a local Coffee shop. Tes had lasagna, an interesting choice for breakfast but since it was 10:30am I guess you could call it brunch. I had eggs Benedict,
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G&T Arrive in Shanghai and Decide the Chinese are Rude 12th November 2010, Shanghai A really rough night, it seems this train runs on the bumpiest tracks and often breaks. Add to this the stopping at 5am and 6am and our arrival at 7am and we were shattered. I don’t think we’d had more than
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(This happened on 11th November 2010) G&T Are Off to Shanghai 9am and straight to Breakfast and then it’s time to Pack, we are getting ready to head off to Shanghai… Opps, there appear to be some problems with our itinerary. We had been unable to book our train ticket from Shanghai to Hong Kong and
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10th November 2010, Terracotta Soldiers We got up at 7:30am, and had breakfast, it was nothing special. Peter our driver was waiting for us as promised. First stop was a pottery place where they made many wonderful things, but of course amongst these were Terracotta Soldiers. We would have loved to have purchased some of
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9th November 2010, Xian We awoke at 7:30am (ouch) after a quiet but broken sleep. A knock on the door signaled coffee. We readied ourselves for a new day, braced ourselves and dived off the train in Xian and straight into…. A building site! The station it seems is under re-construction; this did not
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