suddenly you complete me

Traveling is a stressful piece of entertainment, but I think I finally understand a bit more about stress of traveling in Asia. The interesting thing it isn't the dark and dank places you end up, Beijing railway in all honesty is a dump, with its piss smelling entrance to the wash-rooms and the dark under lit waiting rooms which lead into further underpass tunnels (which remind me of the places in Munich, without the bad smells). The Shanghai underground is a mess, so many different exits in Renmin sq, not to forget some of these exits border on other underground stations. The Hauptbahnhoff in Munich is also a mess, but with 10 times less people.

The reality here is none of these things are a problem, even if my heel is busted and it feels like I have a 2 inch nail being hammered into it every time I step in my second worse pair of trainers in my life.

The stress is from the throng of people you have to crowd surf every moment you step out of the porch. Your on a train and all you can smell is the guys armpit next to you, without realizing you're almost Chikan the girl to your left, cross the road and you meet some taxis and mopeds head on. I turned to my girlfriend and said 'the funniest thing is Westerners pay to do this,' 'do what?' 'to crowd surf at music festivals, they can do it for free here in Asia'.

Take it easy my beautiful eggs.

verschiedenes

• the trains being nicer than I thought they would be,
• olympics are still impressive a year on,
• Australian traveller prediction,
• the xiao long bao resturant, so good we came back again,
• the canal toilets,