We realised that in the last blog we forgot to mention the fact that we had been to see the Shanghai acrobats which was a fairly major part of the stay! In short, they were very good, although there was some scandalous abusing of copyright going on with music etc which was quite amusing. I filmed the last act which should be attached somewhere here for you to watch. Its not exactly traditional acrobatics but I can assure you all the other acts were. So, we last blogged on Day 9 as we left Shanghai for Xi'an. The train station was not quite as terrifying as Beijing but was still pretty busy. Seventeen hours is a long time on the train particularly given the 'facilities'. I won't say any more than that but I'm sure you
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