Completing our journey, here are some parting shots from our time in Shanghai earlier in our trip. Nanjing rd – Shopping Precinct Toni outside Jinma Tower Shanghai is typical of a large International city, impersonal and expensive, and lacks the character of smaller cities like Hangzhou. View from Jinmao Tower Shanghai Planning and Exhibition […]
Continue ReadingLeaving Shanghai
We’re currently at Pudong International airport waiting for our flight to open. We took the train from Hangzhou and then caught a cab from Shanghainan station to Pudong Airport – about 30+kms away. For the record it cost us just 146 Yuan or about AU $24! If we had even a basic knowledge of Mandarin, […]
Continue ReadingAlmost Time to Travel – Again
Well, Merry Christmas to all – the holiday season is upon us once more and, I might add, for the last time this decade. Toni and I are going to be heading overseas for the last time this year/decade just after Christmas and will be updating the blog as usual (so check back before new […]
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