Blogs from Shanghai, China, Asia - page 261

Shanghai, Huangzhou & Yellow Mountain As you can probably tell from our ongoing eunthusiastic tales - we've had an amazing time in China. This is finally our last installment for what has been an amazing, but very full on 25 days! But before I wrap up with the final leg of our journey, I want to make a note on Chinese food. And quite simply - it has been amazing. Of all the meals we've had, short of a few dodgey breakfasts, and the occasional oily dinner, we've had some of THE most yummy dishes we could ever have hoped for. From Yanghou's "tofu stuffed with vegetables", Chongquing's "bok choy with mushroom" and "pork with bamboo", Xian's dumplings and Beijing's "beijing duck" (surprise suprise) - it has been a culinary wonderland. Then to top it ... read more

hello, Laura - Still in Shanghai til Monday, then we get a train to Beijing overnight. It was such a hassle getting train tickets - we ended up going to the train station twice, couldn't get tickets on the day we hoped, and had the only ones left were 1st class (at least we get to travel in style!). Not to mention the irritation of queuing in a 50 people queue in a country where pushing in right at the front desk is perfectly acceptable! So we find ourselves with a few days extra to spare in Shanghai. We had a chill out day yesterday and stayed in the hostel until dinner (partly because we'd been woken up in the early hours by the sound of a wall being demolished in our hostel). Today we went ... read more

Hi! Still in Shanghai and at the moment we are not sure how much longer we are going to be here. On a whim we decided the other day that we'd go to a place called Tai Shan to climb this mountain (as you do). But, after looking into it a bit more we're not sure this will be possible now because there's a festival on from the 1st May and it may be too difficult to get an onwards train to Beijing (where we have booked accommodation for the 1st). So, we're here for the time being until we find the best way out! We went on a river cruise up the Huangpu river today, which was really cool as it gives you the best views of the new and old buildings that line either ... read more

There was a weird vibe this week, and I'm pretty sure that everyone felt it too. It's April 20th; We came February 20th; And in just over a month, June 4th, most of us will be leaving. The reality of how little time we have left here has recently become clear when we've been trying to plan all of the traveling we've been meaning to do, and feel like we should do before we go home, and then we've all realized that for many of us this means that we won't have any weekends left in Shanghai. This realization has meant a lot of things - 1 is that Wednesday has become the new Thursday. Tonight's a perfect example of this. Whereas Thursday nights have typically been the best night of the weekend for going out, ... read more

Hey, hab wirklich nicht viel Zeit. Nur kurz die Neuigkeiten: 1. Ich bin in Shanghai und es geht mir gut! 2. Ich bin mittlerweile schon langsam auf dem Heimweg da meine Versicherung auslaeuft und ich die nicht ohne viel Aufwand verlaengern kann. Ausserdem ist es auch einmal Zeit irgendwo anzukommen. Auch wenn es nur fuer 3-4 Wochen sein wird, denn: 3.Ich bin ab 01.06.2006 in St. Petersburg. Ich habe eine (schlecht) bezahlte Arbeit fuer 6 Monate gefunden. Freue mich schon tierisch darauf. Wer also im Sommer mal eine Woche frei hat der kann sich ja melden. 4. Also bleibt nur noch eine Etappe. Nur noch eine Stadt fehlt und zu der werde ich mich morgen (natuerlich im Zug) begeben. Gruss an alle aus der absoluten Metropole: SHANGHAI, so etwas kann man sich echt nicht vorstellen. Hell ... read more