The toilet facilities on the train ...

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OK so we're on a massive huge train going from Xi'An to Pingyao. We've now been on it for 7 hours and it's actually been a really nice trip. I was dreading it thinking it was going to be boring and hot and horrible and apart from me not being able to have a wee it's been brilliant. Well that's not true - I could have had a wee and in fact I did right at the start of the journey but it's a hole in the floor straight through to the track and because of that it clearly states "NO OCCUPYING WHILE STABLING" but the thing is I don't understand the announcements that probably said - we're coming in to a station - so I didn't know that. So I went in. It wasn't very nice and then halfway through me realising that I cannot aim where I'm peeing to save my life (these trainers are being thrown away when I get home) we pulled into a station! There's me trying desperately to squat, hold my trousers out of the way, trying to wriggle my feet so I'm not pissing on them and holding onto the bars on the wide open window and we pull to a stop - with a platform right there!!! Oh my god. All I can say is I'm glad Chinese people are quite small and that it was only the tops of their heads I could see. I'm not sure how much of me they saw but whatever they saw I'm sure it wasn't very nice. God bless network rail and their wonderful chemical toilets.
(This was written on Wednesday when we were travelling from Xi'An to Pingyao).