Overnight Train

Tea and Tomatoe sauce

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December 5th 2009
We arrived around 8am to a sunny Shanghai. Took some photos of our shiney train then head out, nowhere near as hectic getting out of the station as getting in. I could see people waiting to get through the gate to where i was leaving and all their faces were squished against the gate like captive animals!! We hoped on the tube just outside the train station and were about 5 stops to People's Squa ... read more

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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