Of mice and men or in my case a rat, plans sometimes just fall in a heap, as did my plans today.

I did not research this enough. I forgot what Lydia had told me about managing my ticket, what she meant was to buy it in advance and I didn’t.

I got the number 80 bus to the north bus station where I would catch the bus to Sanxingdui, but when I got there I was told there were no more tickets. Not a good sign, am omen maybe?

As I checked the map for an alternative location I was told that they could fit me in, Great!

The driving was shit as usual and took nearly two hours to cover 50kms. I tried to buy an early train ticket but missed out but I did buy a return for the 15:00 train. I’m currently sitting in the train station and I’ll be here for about an hour before the train arrives and it will still be quicker than this morning.

When we finally arrived we all headed to the museum and to my horror there were no tickets left. 😜👻😲😭

I’ve spent nearly three hours to get here only to find that there are no tickets. FUCK!! In fact the only reason I came to Chengdu was to go to Sanxingdui.

It’s 10km to the train station and I begin to walk. I reach the town centre after an hour of walking and have lunch. I had intended to walk to the station but after lunch I called a Didi and headed here early.

There are only afternoon tickets left for tomorrow and no train tickets and I am not going to sit in a bus for three hours each way to come back and see this very special place that I have been longing to see because I just couldn’t handle the bus .

So let that be a lesson to you all…… Do your research in advance so you don’t end up like me…. All dressed up and no where to go 🙄