After being awake for a couple of hours, I fell asleep again, I suppose, at about 5:00am. The maid woke me at 10:30. I got up and went out and strolled the local area. I fixed the position of the "China Post" office on Hubei between Hankou and Fouzhou avenues. I found a noodle shop close to the junction of Shandong and Guangdong and had a big bowl of noodles for beakfast for 5Y.
I wandered down to Raffles Mall where I was due to meet Zoe. We had ice-cream and coffee in Starbucks then walked over to tour the Old Town.
The Old Town was chaotically crowded.
There were thousands of people - this being the Chinese New Year and a public holiday I guess. The zig-zag path for instance was unapproachable because of the numbers of people in the area. The YuYuan Gardens were a pleasant change and quiet shelter away from the seething mass of humanity.
We walked for a while and had a Chinese meal.
We then walked for another while and then got a taxi to O'Malley's. Then got a tube back to People's Square. Zoe got a taxi home at this point. I walked the length of Nankou Road and back along Fuzhou Road then had a beer in the hotel bar (Wan an) 69Y!
Struggled to get to sleep (Jet Lag) and woke up at 02:30am on Saturday - 09 February 2008
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