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Shenzhen to Shanghai by bus

I’ve said it before, and if this were the search for the Higgs Boson we were talking about, we’d almost be at our five-sigma point by now, such is the level of inevitability. Because seemingly without fail, whenever I travel in China, the adventure begins pretty much as soon as I leave Hong Kong. By “adventure” I mean well-laid plans unraveling almost immediately upon crossing the border. It happened last time when I was heading to Beijing. It happened not quite without a little oversight on my part on my Hong Kong to the UK by train trip last year. And now it’s happening again.

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If there’s one thing I’ve learnt about travelling in China over the past couple of years, it’s that no matter how well laid your plans, or how loose your schedule, things will inevitably go wrong at pretty much the first hurdle.

After leaving Hong Kong at 19:00 bus-bound for Guangzhou, we had been hoping to catch the last train of the night from Guangzhou to Wuchang (Wuhan), arriving at 10:45 the following morning. All being well, a day in Wuhan would have seen us ready to catch our second overnight train at 21:09 that night, arriving in Beijing at 07:00 on the morning of April 2nd.