Qingdao
July 9th 2010 I arrived early in the morning due to the train taking 18 hours when I thought I would arrive in 10 hours. The hostel I booked was not near the train station and far east towards the financial district. I showed my Chinese address to the taxi drivers and three of them had no idea where the street even was. I showed them a map of the city with a dot that showed where the hostel was, still no luck.
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