We had a very pleasant 2 weeks or so staying with Cath and then Alice's aunt and uncle in Melbourne and managed to get all our visas sorted in time to fly on 17th May to Shanghai. China We were met at Shanghai airport by a distant relation of Alice's, Ali, who has been living and working in Shanghai with his partner Sabrina and tiny wee baby Rylie for 2 years or so. We had braced ourselves for the worst in China, expecting to find a country like India but bigger, but the whole place was a pleasant suprise. Everything is clean and well organised, the driving is rubbish but head and shoulders better than most Asian driving. Public transport is cheap and efficient; and the Chinese people, although taciturn and reclusive compared to the Indians,
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