I wake up to a rainy day .firstly looks like the change in diet has kicked in so I spend the next hour squatting over a hole in the floor ,try to rectify the problem with a chilli and potato omelette doesn't help and due to the pending 20 hour train journey in a cramped carriage with a couple of hundred Chinese I decide to take some tablets ( don't think it would be good for east west relations to have an accident in a small confined place).then I find my camera to have a virus and unable to transfer my photos( gutted ) .trying to ask for help in Chinese is going to be impossible after lots of sign language a young Chinese girl try's to remove the virus but doesn't work.so I head for the station I get on the first bus and after about 15m realise I'm going in the wrong direction so I change buses but now I'm confused we're I am.after about 15 min and the fact my train leaves in an hour I'm starting to think I'm going to miss it when a young girl asks me were I'm from in English so after a brief conversation it turns out I'm on the right bus and she is going to the station .she shows were to go and explains I have to wait on the second floor .when I get there there's about 1000 people in this room and what I can only describe as mass panic( as if it was announced that a bomb was going off and the last escape was the train I was planning to take) much pushing and shoving occurred but I managed to find the car and my bunk.now Chinese trains contain rows of bunks three high in an open carriage with a very popular corridor..to be honest I love Chinese trains there noisy full of family's eating chatting( they even share bunks sleeping in shifts as the others sit on the end) as you pass the most amazing scenery ( mountains valleys rivers unbelievable) so I buy some instant noodles which I cook with the communal boiler and lie in my bunk with the iPod on enjoying the scenery and the smells from all the spicy noodles.its lights out at ten so if I wake up in the morning with all my stuff it will be my favourite way to travel , if I don't it will still make the top three.ha.after waking up and going back to sleep several more times It occurs to me I don't know what time were supposed to arrive and it's already been 22 hours so I try and find some one who speaks English .one guy seems to understand the name of the destination and puts up two fingers which means either 2 more hours 2 o'clock or piss off hope it's one of the first two.ok it was two so I've found the hostel and chicken in bloody expensive £1.80 for a beer extortionate for china.