Got up early and went to the train station. Spent about an hour looking at the train track wondering how to get into the station, then got shouted at for entering via the staff entrance! Found it eventually and mamaged to get a ticket to Suzhou. The journey was just over half an hour and when I got there it was easy to negotiate around the town on foot. It was a pleasant town with lots of small canals running though it. If you forgot about the dual carrage ways running around the outside, it was difficult to imagine that almost 6 million people live there. I started by walking the length of the town to the Pan Men scenic area. It was nice but proably not 50 yuan nice. There is a quaint looking pagoda which I paid extra to climb - only to discover there were bars over the windows at the top and so I couldn't get the pictures of the views I expected. Then, after getting a little lost again, I walked back down the town to the Humble Administrators Garden. This was abolutely stunning and worth twice the 50 yuan entrance fee. It was probably particuarly nice in winter when the number of visitors is at a minimum. Whilst there I bumped into Helen and Agnes - 2 of the other inters I did my teacher training with. This was weird as they live 6 hours outside of Shanghai - it's such a small world! Got the train back to Shanghai - it felt like a much longer journey, a) because it was almost an hour this time, b) because the bloke next to me was crying causing everyone to keep looking at him and therefore by default at me and c) because the old woman opposite me kept burping making me want to giggle! Stayed in again tonight and checked out the other places I wanted to go to.