Shanghai Arrival

We are in China! Had a great trip from Singapore and were met at the airport by Cherie from the company I did our travel planning through.  Was a great relief to see her as we have delt with a China based company and I was a bit anxious that everything was above board (after paying all via the web!) NOTE: Blogger is banned in China - it has taken me quite a while to work around this to make this post - but it may be our last until we leave ... I hope not! Photos may be impossible....  Usually I write straight into the blog but I may have to do it all via email (mistakes included!) Driving into Shanghai was so interesting - we were captivated by the city scape - and the contrast between the different buildings - from small hovels and houses to huge apartment towers and modern buildings. The city seems to have a certain vibe about it though - with extreme contrasts.  We went for a short walk tonight and were amazed at how some live and do business amongst the surrounding city scape.  Small shop houses with tiny local business's running out of tiny gaps in buildings or out of a bike/cart. And Stuff averywhere!!  Christina bought mangosteen from a small shop and Ella choose some wrapped biscuits forom a tiny shop that only sod a selection of wrapped bikies a few loose sweets and some seeds!  I just gawped at everything - especially a motorbike repair shop with parts all over the road and a shop selling live ducks jammed in a cage ..... and got warned about taking a photo - at least I guessed that is what he said....  All this so close to a view of a modern tower a bit like Skytower. Nice and cool but no rice yet!

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