We set out on travel to Hangzhou on 9th after having packed up house in Lhasa and sent everything we didn’t need for travelling on to Shanghai (This involved quite an involved and baroque session at the Post Office.) We waved goodbye to everyone, were advised by all our friends one last time to wrap up warm so as not to catch cold, Sharon gave Cindy a pack of tissues for the journey, and off we went.
Our first night was spent in Beijing, A seaside town about 3 hrs by express train west of Beijing. This was the first time we had taken an express rather than a normal train and the difference was startling.
We arrived late in Shanghai and went to pick up our tickets, we where told that our ferry had been delayed by a day due to fog, so another day in Beijing.
It was very interesting to taste the difference between the beer taken just from the end of the production line which was slightly cloudy and has a very pleasant yeasty taste and the product after it had been allowed to settle and finish being treated which tasted of fizz and not much else. I guess they have to get rid of the flavor so that it does not go off, shame.
Also while wandering around we stumbled across a whole street of mock house fronts from ‘old Beijing’, with a mock sky overhead featuring fake clouds.
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