I’m sorry I’m sorry, I realize I’ve been neglecting the blog but honestly faithful readers, you haven’t missed much. Shanghai is incredible and we are both extremely sad to bid farewell. In terms of historic sites and tourist options there isn’t much, but it’s hard not to get caught up in the liveliness of the hustle and bustle. We ventured to the Bund earlier this week, Shanghai’s most famous mile running parallel to the Huangpu River. To the Europeans the Bund was Shanghai’s Wall Street, a place of feverish trading, of fortunes made and lost. The buildings loom serenely, a vagabond of neoclassical 1930s downtown New York style with monumental antiquity thrown in for good measure (you can thank Lonely Planet for that inspiring bit, I certainly couldn’t have put together those words myself!). Foreigners and
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