Around The World in (Substantially Less Than) Eighty Days
May 29th 2010 The train from Xian to Shanghai was a good welcome back to solo travel.
I was sharing my compartment with three generations of a family from Inner Mongolia and a Buddhist monk. Who, for the next 10 hectic hours managed to make me the talking point of the carriage. Using my basic mandarin, a phrase book, a rubbish dictionary and notes from my mandarin lessons we quizzed each other. On their own
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