Walking the lake

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Hangzhou - 25.01.05

We decided to take a small detour to Hangzhou to visit the famous West Lake. As lakes go it's a pretty big one at almost 3km by 3km but as we were keen to get to Shanghai for the Chinese New Year we decide to only spend one day there. With this in mind the last thing we should probably do when we arrive is go to a bar come club for a beer and end up downing some strange whiskey and green tea concoction with some even stranger chinese however.. this is exactly what we do do! The group of 4 chinese guys were very, VERY friendly and more than a little overexcited when we accept their invitation to join them. They don't speak a word of english and our chinese is still pretty sparse so mostly the evening was limited to shouts of cheers (followed by the obligitory downing of our drink) and some enthusiastic group dancing. Bless them, they also took lots of photos of us and made us write down our internet addresses 😊

All this meant that the next days walk was a fairly tired and hungover affair but it was a tranquil and beautiful place to walk around. There's something serene about the lake that makes you feel calm and peaceful, plus the fresh air was definitely good for our aching heads!

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