Overnight Train To Shanghai

Chinese Takeaway

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March 22nd 2006
It all started to go wrong when I decided to take a shortcut to the train station which I found by looking at the map. We had an overnight train to catch to Shanghai, at 3pm, and left our hostel with an hour to spare. Plenty of time we thought. The normal route, without the shortcut, had taken us 45mins on a previous occasion. We loaded up our backpacks (let me remind you that these are 20 ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more