This morning I got in contact with my friend Chris who I was initially travelling with. The plan was to meet back up in China, most likely Nanning and share adventures and continue travelling together upwards through China. After a brief discussion I learnt that he has become stuck in Vietnam and can't leave for 2 to possibly 10 weeks while he is issued a new passport. Unfortuanately on entering vietnam, the two entry stamps took up the last two pages of his passport and so there was no where for his Vietnam departure stamps or his Chinese entry stamps. I cannot afford to hang around that long in limbo waiting for him so I have taken it upon myself to keep trucking along Han SOLO stylez. I booked a train ticket to Shanghai for this evening. It takes 31 hours to get there and I apparantly have a cosy little bed to squish into. Purchasing this little slip of paper was almost as hard and frustrating as trying to lift a truck! First off I waited in line for half an hour in 30 degree heat to get to the ticket window. Sweaty and impatient I proceeded to communicate as best as I could that I wanted to go to either Changsha or Shanghai. The response I got went like this: "No..........no...........no...........no..........no" and nothing else. This totally pissed me off! I said "thankyou" in a rough tone and she replied "No". If there wasn't glass between us it would have been all on. I under my breath said "f*ck this sh*t" and walked out of the train station and trudged with my backpack back to the hotel to see if they could help me out. Whilst badly communicating and having a good laugh with the receptionist a friendly chap came up to me and said "can I help?" I replied "for sure". He then told me that his Mum was going on a train to Shanghai this evening at 19:45 from the train station. He hooked me up with the details in both English and Chinese and sent me on my way once again smiling! Back to the ticket window I slammed the piece of paper up against the window and after many "No, no , no's" I finally got the ticket. All I can say is that there are complete dickheads everywhere that always let down the rest. I hope I'm not a NZ dickhead......maybe I just look like one!
3 comments:
Matt it sounds like your having a fantastic time man!!! I can't think of many people who wouldn't envious of you right now. I can't wait to catch up again bro :)
Hey bruisa! yeah man there'll be many tales to tell when we catch up again....maybe over a beer on ol ragga's beach while trying to surf eh?
Hell yeah, count me in for some of that ragga's action. What's up Steve! Where are you now brosef?
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