Todays weather forecast was wet, cold and bloody miserable, so we opted to stay cold and miserable inside our hotel – at least we remained dry. We Watched a DVD called 'The Kingdom' which was so bad that I would rather have been frozen, drowned and beaten by a team of baboons with cricket bats than have to sit through it. It was the story of a crack American (surprise, surprise) unit who go to Saudi to take-out the stupidest terrorist cell in the world. Tip 1: a street where everyone shoots at you, just may be where the terrorists are hiding.
After that 2-hour Hollywood inspired torture session I was happy to brave the snow for another overnight train – this time to Bejing.
The train station was absolute mayhem. A heaving, brawling, sweating mass of humanity, all with the singular aim of getting out of Xian – maybe The Kingdom was being shown on TV that night? It was as if someone had said Jamie Foxx is in the station and anyone can go and punch him in the head. There really was that many wld-eyed frantic people around.
Luckily, we were able to flash our first class tickets at a guard who swiftly pulled us from the ranks of the great unwashed and whisked us into our luxury waiting room. I was tempted to offer him a few coins to pull his assault rifle on them but contented myself by looking smug and happy that the tickets were the very best £7 upgrade I have ever spent.
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