Day 11...Li River (Yangshuo)

Our last morning in Yangshuo (overnight Train tonight!) we headed to see the sights of the Li River, the scenery of which is on the Chinese 20 Yaun note, for anyone who has one lying around the house. Unfortunately it was absolutely pissing rain,which kind of took away from it. We had a one hour bus journey down to the river, and from there we headed down the river on our boat. It was cool as you could head out onto the front of the boat.The scenery was alot like you would see in Jurassic Park and King Kong, me and roisin even started making dinosaur noises--hillarious! Another great thing when you were out there was all the Chinese people would wave at us vigoursly and shout HELLO. To be honest i would say on another day the views and scenery would have been even more spectacular, but the weather dampened everyones mood, and of course we had the night train to look forward too. Now you might be thinking, what the hell are they giving out the night train for? they got pissed on the last one. Well for me personally the reason i was dreading was that Liverpool were playing Chelsea at Anfield and i would be stuck in bunkbeds, with no room on a feckin train. I asked Tim to text me the score as soon as the result came in. Roisin's phone could recieve texts but couldnt send them, also it hadnt been charged for a few days (surprise surprise!) so i didnt even know if id get it on. I knew the game finished at 10.45pm our time. Also, we knew we wouldnt drink as much as last time. A few people in the group had been ill, and i dont think anyone felt 100%. Jamie copped the worst of it and even collapsed in the train station 20 minutes before the train was due to leave. We got him onto to train to into the bunkbeds and he was ok the next day. Kinda of an eye opener as to how safe you have to be as it is so easy to get ill, and its not nice too see anyone like that.

Anyway lights went out at 10pm and everyone hit the beds straight away there was no way i was going to bed. I waited till 10.50, then i turned on the phone praying for good news (and the battery). The phone came on anyway, I waited a few minutes and a text came through. It was from Tim. "2 Nil to the Pool" it said, i clinched my fists.FUCKIN CLASS. I got to sleep happy that night.

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Team Domro