Shanghai Tan

Yuyuan Garden

Meeting my mate, Mark (who’s doing a massive holiday around the world with his missus, lucky bastard), definitely put the icing on my vacation. It was Spring Festival and Shanghai was about as quiet as Beijing, minus smoking in public areas. The skyscrapers in Shanghai were incredible and led me to this article on The Mainichi Daily News making an interesting connection with the Tower of Babel. We stayed at Le Tour Traveller’s Rest Youth Hostel and had RMB30 breakfasts every morning: sausages, eggs, toast, juice and tea, quite a luxury! Other than doing typical touristy stuff, we rode around Shanghai on rented bikes from the hostel and tried to go clubbing but failed to find anything decent. There’s a Singapore Day coming up in Pudong in April and hopefully I’ll make it there provided the flights are cheap then; miss Singapore food!