We arrived in Nanjing at 11.30am on Monday after a 37 hour journey and decided that we didn't want to stay there the night. Luckily we were able to get another train to Shanghai in 2 hours which gave us enough time to get a hot meal before a 3 hour journey. We finally made it to our hostel at about 5.30pm, at first we walked past it as there is scafolding outside (which in China is made from bamboo!). The evening consisted of a luke warm shower and some food, we ordered beef in oyster sauce, but i have never seen beef that colour before (red/pink). We think that it might have been dog or even guinea pig, but it was rather tasty.. On Tuesday it rained but despite this we endevered to make the
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