Sleeper train No.2!! October 13th, 2009
Wow! What a difference to the first one!! I’m currently lay on the bottom bunk listening to my iPod. Thank god for iPods! This is really horrible! The last train was modern and had proper western toilets but this one just has a hole in the floor!! I have a whole 14 hours of this and I really need a wee but I really don’t want to go!! Traveling is not very glamorous!! Yeah ok you get to see the world but doing it by backpacking is hard! So far I have slept on 2 trains! Stopped at a mosquito infested hostel. Warn the same pair of jeans for 5 days and even slept in them!!!! I had to wash them in the sink using shampoo because there was no other way to wash them! I’ve only just started out as well. My god I hope it doesn’t get much worse than this!!
I’m going to close my eyes now and listen to my iPod and try to imagine that I’m somewhere else other than here!!!!
Update- it’s now gone midday the following day! I still haven’t used the toilets and I’m not going to! Had a really bad nights sleep last night, I kept thinking the train was going to crash!! It’s the worst train I have ever been on in my life!!!! It sounds like it keeps coming off the tracks! I’m guessing it doesn’t but it sounds like it! Just really want to get off here now and get to our next hostel. The next sleeper train we need to get is over 50 hours long!! I think I might convince andy to fly! Concidering I really hate flying I think I would rather spend 2 hours on a plane than 50 hours on a train!!!
Well only another 30 mins or so and I will be off this train!! Then the fun starts! Trying to find our hostel in a city we have never been to and don’t speak the language! What great fun that sounds lol.
Oh and one thing we have really noticed! As we have started to get further and further away from Beijing, very few people speak English! There are also very few signs in English! On our train which has 20 carriges not a single person other than andy and I speaks English! It’s been really difficult.