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Published: December 25th 2008
The Bund, Christmas Eve 2008
The stunning view of New Town on Christmas EveWoke up this morning with a hangover. Ouch. Too much to drink at our party with Dragon, Melitze, Travis and Maulo last night. Outside the hum of cars roar and the squeal of scooter horns are like demon screams. This is hell. This is 7am on Christmas Day 2008.
Christmas Eve was fab! We wandered back to the Bund and at night the place was alive! The neon was hypnotic as ever and the view was spectacular! We hung there with the guys for a good half an hour just looking at vendors trying to sell their wares. In particular were the sparkler salesmen and women, who kept making absurd offers! We had '2 for 2RMB? 2 for 1RMB?' No! Then another appeared offering '5 for 2RMB? 5 for 1RMB?'
Then literally a moment later '1 for 10RMB?'
Hilarious if you were there and lost in translation maybe but it was a fab evening that ended with everyone back at our hotel room with Sundong Beer, Bugle Chips and sunflower seeds talking crap until 2am. Its a damn shame that we've all been a bit reserved until now because they're a great bunch of people who hopefully we'll
Street Below Our Room
Christmas Eve 2008 - the streets are alive! be able to stay in contact with!
This all came after an acrobatics show that made up for a 20 MINUTE REPEAT OF 'MY HEART WILL GO ON' and two people spinning around with 5 motorbikes in a small metal ball of death doing stunts! And best of all was that the leader of the 5 was an attractive woman (adding to the danger factor, obviously...Andrew and I both agreed that her death would be an extremely depressing waste) who showed them all up by scaring everyone sh!tless with how close she came to having her head run over by one of the others!!
So here I am in an internet cafe on Christmas Day after going to the Shanghai Museum (typical of my luck and an apparent sign of the future I guess) and visiting the AMAZING Jade Buddha Temple, where of all things a MONK wished me and Andrew, who he recognised as being British, a Happy Christmas! A MONK at a BUDDHIST TEMPLE wishing us a Merry Christmas! Madness! And a really glowing way to end what a visit to an impossibly impolite country with just a short sentence.
Faith in humanity restored a
Mighty Fine Night
Andrew and I fulfill our Blackhorse Xmas Tribute to the legend that is Lloyd Regan little bit for me I think!
Merry Christmas all, seasons greetings and God bless
love to your mothers
peace out
xxx
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