Dirt, beauty and train travel - the tough road through China
August 28th 2007 As a starting point to the China leg of our trip, Shanghai was a slap in the face - after the warmth and politeness of the Japanese and Koreans, we found the local people to be hostile in the way that they stared at us and the way they would lurk behind you as if to steal what they can (mostly when on the trains) was quite unnerving! The difficulty we were going to have with language was apparent
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