Well the couple of days I've had to look around Shanghai have been ok. It's a real shoppers paradise which isn't much use to me. I have done some sightseeing but with the amount of people everywhere the cues are always long and take up so much time. I've spent hours wandering up and down nanning road also down by the river. I took the "sightseeing tunnel " across from the bund to get to pudong. The lonely planet is spot on when its says it garish and weird. Once...

With past issues firmly in my mind I got the taxi to arrive 30 min early to pick me up to get to the airport for my 2 hr flight from xian to shanghai. Sadly there were no dramas at all! Again I was really surprised at how efficient and clean the airport was. Once I touched down I had 2 options to get to the next hostel, taxi to the door or a mix of trains and walking. As I'm wanting to get all of my past youth travelling out of the system I took the complicated ...