16th Apr 2006 1:41 AM
Alright guys, been a while in xi'an now.
Nice city, alot less busy than Beijing and much easier to get around. also a lot smaller which means walking around is easy enough.
some alright people in the hostel here, most are either old boring or old and boring. or abunch of crazy mexicans who seem to like starting fights in nightclubs.
after a disappointing night out at a bar (people seemed to be doing shots of hot water!! steady on), i was wondereing around by mysellf trying to fnd something to do. passed a few punks and asked if there was anything to do and thye said no, but would call me next time a good show was on (abit useless as i leave on tuesday). and ended up in the hostel bar drinking with some other british guys form london and a french and finnish blokes. talking shit and arguuing with a mental dribiling very racist guy form tazmania. about 50 whoi had a 20 year old chinese girlfriend. (cant remember too much form the evening but got a note made in notebook that mouse ear + penis = v.good according to the oz.)
We walked along the city walls the next day (very imrpessive, they are as wide as the southampton ones are high) and go round entire innner city, going back at night time to check out the neon lit pagodas and laterns. and generally wondered around the town (had people ask to take photos with the strange foreigners a few times whihc is a little disconcerting)
had a lot of help from a great girl called huu that i got in contact with on myspace who helped us out the next day, took us too some good places to eat and help us haggle with the natives (picked up a bling orerintal jacket i love ) so thanks alot huu eve though you ended up going the wrong way most fo the time =)
was quite funny she said the shop keepers were asking why she was helping the foreigers drive the price down from the chinese shop owner.
she took us to a few cool places with her cousin who tagged along which was nice tried the local Xi'an dlecatacy whihc was bread chunks in a meat soup wiht these kind of jelly clear noodles (but was very nice). might pick up some random nick knacks for people tomorrow so and requests for bracelets or necklaces or random chozz then send me a message and i will see what i can do.
Flying to Nanjing on tuesdayso will prob do another update then.
have a good one peeps and happy easter
Law xx
