Day 3 - after a torrid night's sleep we arrive in freezing cold shanghai minus our bags (which contained our coats!) We hung around the airport for a while making our disappointment known, and managed to come away with extra Chinese Yuan ($) to fund our travels. The metro from the airport was long enough, without the need of the schoolboy error of falling asleep and failing to change trains when all the other passengers got off. An hour later we were back at the airport! suffice to say that there was a lot of travelling that day and the journey to our couch surfing hostess was a long one. Luckily she was very friendly and helped with reuniting us with our bags. Her apartment, though, was cold. I mean very cold! We couldn't understand how
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