Dear Travelblog fans, Come Friday 6th June, we left Beijing in search of inner peace in Xian on the train romanitically referred to as T55. Having muscled through the masses in Beijing Xi Zhan and armed with all my worldly possessions, including a couple of apples for the trip, we found ourselves on board a double decker train bound West to somewhere, I can't remember the name but I knew it stopped where we wanted. Once on board we found our cosy little berth with a couple of gentlemen for company and headed West. The train itself is not an bad place to be, everything seemed clean and pretty new, however I don't think that they were made or designed with the taller traveller in mind. The bed could have done with an extra foot or
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