Hello everyone, We made it to Shanghai courtesy of a very comfortable overnight express train. We shared a cabin with a nice chinese lady and had a great free dinner of beef with green peppers which went down v well. I think we were a tad jammy and managed to book the newest train so we won't be expecting that everytime! We arrived at Shanghai at 7.30am so made ourselves popular once again by squeezing onto the metro in rush hour but thankfully we were only two stops away from our hostel 'Le Tour' which is absolutely immaculate if slightly lacking in atmosphere. It doesn't seem to be quite as much of a backpackers hangout here, I suppose there are too many flash hotels to choose from. We're in a four bed room but as of
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