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Sleeper Bus to Yangshou - HAPPY NEW YEAR

Posted by John999181 | 10th January 2007

Thinking back on how I've spent New Years Eve in the past, this is certainly up with the best of them. A beach party on the Gold Coast, Australia, or seeing the new year in at a local pub in a remote town called Hugo, which is in the outback of Colorado among the Rocky Mountains. Or how about a street party in Lerwick, Shetland..... This time I'm opting for something different. This year I choose to be legless, lying on my back as the clock strikes midnight. Though it isn't alcohol related... Its because I'm lying on a poxy sleeper bus, staring at the ceiling, travelling through the night as the chimes of 12, midnight just pass me by. No kissing and hugging, no singing Auld Lang Syne and cheering, no letting off party poppers and speaking to people you haven't spoke top for maybes that past 5 year and greeting them with handshakes, just the sound of 30 snoring Chinese locals making there way to Guilin, via Yangshou.

The sleeper bus was made up of three rows, from front to back

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