not long left in china now, i am very excited for Thailand but will be sad to leave Chen and china as i have been here quite along time now and had a great time.
anyway today i needed to find an Internet cafe with a printer, an easy task? think again. anyway Chen CBA coming with me to find one and wanted to sleep, so i headed off on my own, i caught the free bus to the subway, i was getting used to using the Subway in china now, its like the London underground just much more complicated.........yes that is possible. anyway i got off the bus at the subway Metro line 1 and went UNDERGROUND!. the Subway in china is the Busiest place you will ever go. its so cheep though, it will cost you 20p-70p to travel pretty much anywhere in Shanghai. its great, anyway i got on line 1. six stops then got off at the interchange for line 7. line 7 for one stop and then got off at Tianzifang. i couldn't find the Internet cafe that i researched on the tintaweb anyway, so i flagged a taxi and showed them a page in my lonely planet book that had the chinese symbols for Internet cafe nearby? on. after driving around for a while the taxi finally found an Internet cafe. the taxi cost 12 yen. very cheep. the Internet cafe was on top of a restaurant. you tent to find that Internet cafes (wangba) in china are often squirreled away down hutong(alleyways) or in the basements or upper floors of buildings on side streets so they can be hard to find. you just have to look out for the chinease symbols 网吧. anyway i went in, it was very dark and very smelly, no smoking ban in china :(. yep of cause there's no printing available here. damn, i went on the computer and found addresses of Internet cafes nearby, wrote down the addresses and went on a hunt. after trying 2 more Internet cafes i finally found one with a printer but i had to use the computer behind the counter to be able to use it and he didn't seem happy about that. anyway he let me do it and he didn't charge me any extra on top of the 30p i payed for an hours use of the computer for the printing....brill. i soon realised i had lost the little bit of paper i wrote chen's address on crapy! i knew there was a tesco near his house but i think there was two. anyway i found the address for one the only address i could find. i also printed out the chinese translation for "this is the wrong Tesco please take me to the other nearby tesco" just in case the taxi took me to the wrong one. anyway i got the subway to the end of metro line one. the stop closest to chen's house. i then got a motorbike taxi just because there more fun than regular taxis. anyway i showed him the address for tescos, he nodded, i jumped on and we weaved in and out of the madness that is Shanghai Traffic. yup you guessed it wrong Tesco. I showed him the translation for "this is the wrong tesco please take me to a different nearby tesco" he just laughed at me. i think it was a bad translation, Fu*k you google translate! i wonder what it actually ment :/. he clearly didn't understand the message so i just kept repeating the chinese word for Tesco and pointing away from the Tesco i was at and in the end he took me there. I walked from Tesco to chen's about a 2 min walk and chilled. we went out to clubs later that night...........good day!
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