7th day - chilling in xi'an

so today. i will feeling a little tired, not use to all this walking, office boy remember. or at least i was.

so decided i would make a plan of what i am doing next. thought i was gonna go to chongqing (yes i wrote it wrong last post) with steve, but looking into it, there are no hostels in chongqing. just hotels. Now it looks nice and all that, but both me and steve decided that we wouldn't go to chongqing due to it being a hotel place and being more expensive then we had imagined. only £10 (like it im using the £ sign, the pc's are in engrish so i changed the keyboard, so much better, anyway) a night, but thats not what we are used it, and it would be harder to meet people, blah blah blah.

so we are gonna go are seperate ways, steve's going back to beijing and down to shanghi, and i will go down to guilin, see some nice views. I am getting alittle bored seeing temples, they all seem to be the same, so lets do something different.

off to guilin. i am leaving xi'an in 2 days, tried to get a train ticket today. ouch this isn't easy, apparently this time of year is busy, i believe chinese people travel aswell. so with 2 days to go i was gonna find it hard. anyway this hostel won't arrange if for me so i had to get a ticket myself. down to the train station. wow the queues are so so big. i was looking at a good 2 hour wait. however i went down with steve, and we both know that lots of chinese people don't queue. i was willing to being british, thats what we do, but i am glad i was with steve, because i tell you what he walked right to the front i mean the front, and no one said a word. he got serverd at the desk and he was done in about 5mins.

Me not so easy, i was being told there were no soft sleeps and my journey to guilin is 25hrs. they had standing room for the 9th. yeah ok im not gonna stand for 25 hrs. so basicly the nearest they can give me a soft sleep was the 14th july. wow a week away. not good. was thinking of doing it, but glad i decided to check out the flying side of it.

A train was gonna cost me 540 (£33.75) yeun, and i found out that flying was only 570 (£35) so sod it is saves me staying here for another week, which is good there is sod all to do here, really only a temple or two (again getting bored of them) and the warriers. was gonna go up the mountain thats here, still may do i have a couple of days left.

so anyway flying to guilin then not sure from there, possible kumning go and meet ben (amercian from china) he was a cool bloke.

so my feet are feeling better today. hope they are ok for tomorrow. although me and steve are going out to another club tonight. however the girls (jo and ruth ) aren't think we war them out yesterday. bah i am 27 they are 22 and im out doing them, thats not right. still they said maybe tomorrow. lets hope it was such a good time.