Tuesday morning two weeks ago Calvin, my host from the night before, just texted me and excused that he messed up the meeting last night. He invited for a cup of coffee to say sorry, and I accepted for sure. Unfortunately my next train already left at noon and it took longer than expected to get to the meeting point. Hence, in the end we just met for 15 minutes at the subway station and took a quick coffee there. It’s a real pity, that we couldn’t stay longer.
As there were only high-speed trains during the day, I picked the cheapest one for this drive of about three hours. This area is really densely populated and after several minutes we stopped in a city, with each of it alone seems rather huge. In the beginning we crossed also the Yangtze river, as it was very fast, it doesn’t seem very huge. But nevertheless the river ships on it were looking pretty huge. In Shanghai we arrived at the largest railway station of Asia. It was crowded, but as there was enough space it didn’t felt really packed. I tried to buy my next train tickets. One of them couldn’t be sold and for the other, I needed to queue at another ticket counter. Well at least I was able to purchase on of them. In the evening I headed to the subway station where my host Axel picked me up. This day, everything went fine.









