Woke up in oxford after a late night of last minute packing and realised I had forgotten so many things, I then proceeded to forget to pack half of these things, like my walking boots, a tie, and various other things I'm sure will turn out to be essential, such is travelling!
Met Ben and Chris at the airport and said goodbye to Ben for half an hour with a Beer and a last Burger rounding off the Beer, Steak, Curry and Pasta of the last few days, foods I may well not see in a while!
Headed through the gate and straight onto the plane with no problems, and they even let me take my little guitar! although i did forget a plek!
The flight was not bad, watched the scot something vs the world, which was very good, some of Salt which I should finished and a little of the one about the start of facebook but kept trying to sleep. Only managed an hour or so in the end though which was a shame!
Landed in shanghai feeling pretty tired and sick but ok. As we went to passport control we passed through the quarantine section designed to find people with flu symptoms but luckily it was unmanned as we are both sporting epic colds! Went through passport control trying not to sniff or sneeze and managed that too so we made it in!
While waiting for my bag I saw a sniffer dog jump on it and the guy it pull it to one side for further inspection. With no idea what I could have had to annoy the dog except some strong soaps I headed over and after some pointing and questioning looks he asked if I had any food in my bag, I said I didn't and offered to open it up but I think he saw how tighly packed it was and just told me to go, narrow escape as repacking that in a crowded airport would have been a right pain!
Shanghai weather is crazy, its a bearable 4degrees in the streets, slightly cold with a wind, but all buildings are heated to around 28, so inside I boil! Crazy country!
Jumped on the maglev again for Chris and headed towards Shanghai at 430kph! fantastic! Changed onto the metro and disgregarding our booked hostel I headed us to my favorite little hostel in Peoples Square, the Etour hostel.
Checked in for 2 nights to get our bearings and after dumping our stuff walked the mile or so down to the famous Bund with all the foreign concessions in. We took a few photos there and then headed back up to the urban planning exhibition, after looking around at the future of shanghai and the amazing model of central shanghai we headed back to the hostel for a little lie down around 3pm.
Waking up at 6pm we decided to grab some food and take a walk so headed out down random streets until we found a nice restaurant to eat at, we ordered some noodles, chicken breast and some beef in sauce, with a couple of beers for the expensive price of £12, but it is central shanghai!
Tomorrow I will investigate train tickets to hangzhou for monday and maybe check out the science museum or the expo site, try and get into the china pavillion I couldn't manage last time!
I am investigating moving the blog to one I can post on more easily but I will put a forwarding post here if that happens!
Hi to all back home! Post more soon, nath
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