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Published: June 17th 2017
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Today the alarm was set for 5.45am as we had a flight to catch to Taipei. No breakfast today, no time so we got packed, then got a taxi to the airport. Well this taxi driver thought he was in a racing car, we darted between cars, buses, we dragged with another taxi driver for most of the way, I was in the back seat and the front wheels of the car next to us was level when we were changing lanes, this was quite common right the whole way to the Airport in Ningbo. Then Clint said was this the right airport ??? How was I to know?? Well were at the right one, there is only one airport. Paid our fare 50 RMB ( about $10) cheap for a ride in a race car, went to enquire about our flight, only to be told it was cancelled on the 27th February !!! Well now what??? No internet, cold airport, no breakfast, desperately needing coffee to function, we sat outside coffee shop until it opened, then got coffee and wifi code!! Got sorted out by emailing Lyn back at work to contact travel agent by phone as my
contact Silvi was not in at work until Friday. Emailed a few people and waited for replies, still needing to let our Taipei hotel know we will be 24 hours late. All this has all happened before 8am, we are now heading back to Ningbo in another normal taxi as I write this, we now have peak hour traffic so this time taking longer to get back. Now we have time to go and see some things around Ningbo, not sure what but we will check when we get to the hotel, the Crowne Plaza. Hopefully our bags make it to hotel too as the lid is open and they are half hanging out !!!
Well re made it, along with our bags, wow, flash hotel and room with a king size king bed, yes it's massive, it's basically 2 queen size beds together, roll over 2 times before we even meet!! I have never seen a bed that big!!
We checked into our wifi and got emails about our flight and we went on FaceTime to work as this has been the first time we have been able to without rushing off somewhere.
We ventured out to find an ATM as
we had used all our Chinese RMB (yuan) as we were leaving for Taipei, then off to find something for breakfast, by now, we were really hungry!! A coffee as well topped us up, then we went wandering through the streets sightseeing, if you could call it that. Always on the lookout for where we will be buying our dinner for that night. We went back to the hotel to rest, catch up on messages and have a quiet drink!!( and it was only 11am!!)
Clint got some rest, he snored, he coughed, he sneezed, and what ever else he did for about 1.5 hours, while I tried to catch up on the travelpod and talk to whoever was on Facebook at the time and then mid afternoon, we went for a really long walk, found a place that we would go to for dinner a bit later, then walked into this tall building where there was about 3 whole levels of mobile phones, cords, cases, power banks, screens, etc, store after store of whatever you needed for ALL types of phones, amazingly, we didn't buy anything!! We found our way out of there, and having a nana nap!!
Around 6.30pm, we
went back to the little shop that we saw earlier, found a waitress who could explain what was on the menu, and we both had really nice meals, once again, to go with our warm tea! We did some more wandering past the shops and market stalls and we ended up in a food shop, which we bought some sandwiches for our plane trip, and then got an ice cream to take back to our room. A fairly early night after we packed the bags once again, not much sleep for me though, as Clint kept me awake with his coughing and snoring and sneezing all night???once again!
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Tom
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Now I want shrimp!!!!!