Bund from M on the Bund

Shanghai, Bund, food, art and fish swimming in the street

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August 24th 2009
I nipped to Shanghai on Thursday and met Tracey straight off the train. Firstly, I wanted to put my 120 roll film in at snaps on Huai Hai Lu but it wasn’t open so we went to H&M and tried loads of clothes on - some whilst standing on the shop floor. We ran back to snaps in the biggest thunder storm I’ve witnessed yet in China and we’ve had some ‘belters’. Fish could swim in the street ... read more

Asia » China » Shanghai

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more