30.4.2010 von Ines.

As tomorrow is the May first holiday and the beginning of the Shanghai World Expo we were not able to get a train ticket back to Beijing for this evening. So we decided that instead of staying in Shanghai it would be nicer to take a day holiday in Hangzhou. So we took the fast train to Hangzhou and stayed in a nice guest house near the zoo.

We had dinner in a small hole in the wall place with local food. It was really good and of course really cheap. As we knew tomorrow would be endless amounts of tourists we decided to take a long night walk to the famous and beautiful West Lake (Xi Hu).

We walked over one of the embankments crossing the lake. The one we took had 6 bridges and was very long. But we had a nice view of the mountains in the West of the lake.

There was hardly anybody out. It was really peaceful and quiet. This was in the direction of Hangzhou city center.

It was a beautiful night with a full moon. We walked for over 2 hours at fast pace. Back at the hostel we booked 2 bikes for the next day so that we could explore the city.

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30.4.2010 von Ines.

Today was the final day of the CycleChina 2010. Our Natooke booth still looked nice.

I took a final tour around the other exhibition halls. I likes this new design bike done by design students from a Chinese-Danish-German collaboration. Even though I am not sure that it will ride comfortably. Also I might not do trick on it.

And again I did some bike tricks.

There are more pictures of today on my webalbum. I also uploaded a video on youku which is the Chinese version of youtube. Each time it was so easy to attract a crowd of people. They then all wanted to take pictures of me and the bamboo bike.

We were not in a rush to take down our booth which resulted in us being teh last in our hall to pack our stuff.

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