My wife and I just returned from our latest trip to Shanghai. It had been slightly more than a year since our last visit - way too long.
In preparation, I had been walking 7 miles and climbing 20 flights of stairs daily to get in shape. It was work well spent as I did not wear out from all the long walks or find myself out of breath.
We had a glorious time. It stopped raining the day after we arrived and stayed bright, warm and sunny up until the day after we left. It was like we were being welcomed there. Shanghai is known for its smog problems, but it was much better this time. I think this was due not only to the constant rains of the season, but the changes the city had made to accommodate the 2010 Shanghai World Expo.
We spent roughly 2 1/2 weeks there, which was a little less than I would have preferred, but all-in-all a pleasant length of time given the 24+ hours total travel time (door-to-door) each way.
When went to the Expo, bought some prescription eyeglasses, took a train to YiWu (e-woo), did general shopping and visited relatives. No big traveling or sightseeing this time, just a calm nice vacation.
We took lots of pictures and videos. My wife's new camera does panoramic shots, so there's lots of those we will be posting (like the one above)
Here's a list of topics I plan to blog about from this trip:
- Things I Ate
- Serious Mahjong
- How to Un-Adultproof a Pill Bottle
- I am Now Officially OLD
- YiWu and the Train
- DVDs: The Real Cost
- A Day in the Life - In Shanghai
- Fast Food Wars
- Expo and Knives
- We Are Too Clean - and the Boy Who Cried Wolf
- The Price of Mass Production
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