Thursday, 24 April 2008

Shanghai, China 10/4/08

Had a good wander around Shanghai which is really great. It feels like New York mixed with Bladerunner. Very futuristic. The shops here are great with every other person selling knock off clothes. Every 20 yards along the road someone sidles up to you and says "watch, bag, t-shirt, dvd, shoes, gucci, armani". They even sell copies in little offices at the top of the shopping malls. Very hush hush of course. They are really good copies too.

It's really easy to get around here as well. The metro system is only 3Y per journey and all the signs are in English as well as Chinese so it's easy to work our where you want to go.

We had a really great, cheap dinner in a local canteen (I wouldn't call it a restaurant). We were the only foreigners in there which was good. Neither of us have quite got the hang of chopsticks yet. We drop almost as much as we manage to get into our mouths. Very messy!

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