Origins and Destinations

The high speed train was right on time to the minute, it took us only 5 hours to get to Shanghai. What a cosmopolitan, bustling,
huge city, complete contrast to Beijing in many ways. We are staying in the tree lined French Concession area in a little apartment down a hutong. There's a photo on the wall that shows this whole building being demolished. It makes sense because the inside of this place is fresh as can be, big shower and fluffy white towels and beddings, a far cry from what we had in Bei Gao village..changes everywhere


We went to the Yuyaan Gardens market area and had lunch at this
wonderful Chinese restaurant, great veggie dumplings and soup with delightful noodles and mushrooms

We walked along the Bund near the Huangpu River and were amazed at the eclectic architecture and blue skies

I am standing in front of the Oriental Pearl TV tower

Fuzhou Street was filled with small art supply stores, loved browsing and buying a few new materials

Last night we had a real adventure hunting for a restaurant. Mike

was in charge of finding a place to eat..he had it all picked out,the best Indian food in the city etc. taxied there and it was
out of business..he had read about another place on the same street, but we kept walking and walking and passed the intended address so began asking people for help, first a women in a dress shop, then a girl on the street, then we went into a spa and they directed us around the corner, on and on until we were almost ready to give up but found a hutong where we asked a young man and he politely and proudly got up and led us to 'Origin' the restaurant we were seeking out..after an hour and a half of searching we were finally upstairs taking our shoes off and ordering..ahhhh the joys of travel!

We made it home and popped a movie into our DVD, I lasted about 10 minutes, big day!

onward and upward