SHANGHAI AT LAST

A final bus ride of two hours and Shanghai looms up ahead at last. It seems much longer than a week since we arrived here from Brisbane waiting for our flight to Beijing. And our first stop is at the Bund, the old British/French area overshadowed now by the impressive buildings of the Pudong District separated by the Huang Po River, the old from the new. The last time we were here off a cruise ship some may recall we were Shanghaied in Shanghai by a lovely young couple who somehow managed to extract some money from us at a tea ceremony we had no intention of attending. But I won’t repeat that story here, only to advise that we are on guard this time.

Some of our tour group are attending a cruise on the Huang Po River tonight to see all the buildings lit up; but again we have done that cruise previously and will make it an early night in preparation for our last day of the tour tomorrow .... which proves something of an anticlimax wandering around shopping areas, markets, and gardens previously visited.

Here's an idea for a wall garden you might like to try on that bare fence!

The Shanghai Museum is one of the world's great museums housing on three floors artifacts thousands of years old.

C 1700 Not as good as mine!