Hangzhou

We arrived in Shanghai at 11 am.  After getting some Chinese money, we bought our train tickets to Hangzhou, a town about 2 hours south of Shanghai.  We ate lunch at a Chinese fast food chain and then wandered around a super market before going to the train station and waiting.  Our train to Hangzhou left at 3:30 pm and arrived at 4:30 pm.  It was one of the new bullet trains, we reached 360 kmph.  I took a video of the cars on the road beside us that we were flying by.    In Hangzhou we found our hostel and walked around the shops on one of the market roads.  The next morning it was raining but we went out anyway.  We went to the National Silk Museum (the biggest silk museum in the world) and walked around West Lake.  We ate a late lunch at a “western” restaurant because that was the only place around that was still opened.  Evergreen got a pizza that said it would serve 3 – 4 people but it was just the right size for one person.  I got French fries, pork kebabs, and “pumpkin pies”.  The pumpkin pies were small little blobs of fried pumpkin mush stuff, I wouldn’t have called them pumpkin pies but they were good.  We caught a 6 pm train back to Shanghai were we had booked another hostel.  This one was also very nice with a fluffy blanket that made it hard to get up in the morning.