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Having a great time in Shanghai, even though we

are missing Scarlett not being here. Weather has been good with 22 or 23c each day; the haze lifted on Thursday at which point we realised that we had a good view of Pudong from our room… Most of the time we’ve spent walking around (other than when I’ve been working) and as a walking city Shanghai is pretty good.   

Smiles all round…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Kite Flying old dudes….

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Flying into Pudong Airport you fly over the Donghai bridge, the longest sea bridge in the world, it’s pretty striking at over 20 miles long… That sets you up well for the pretty bazaar scale of Shanghai, the airport ups the ante! 

Once you’re in the terminal the scale of the place is incredible, you arrive half way along a single arrivals corridor that seems to stretch for over a kilometre in each direction, before getting onto the Maglev train into Shanghai itself… 

The train is spectacular partly because it feels so ordinary… Travelling at over 190 miles an hour seems pretty effortless when you’re floating on magnets; we didn’t actually get up to the top speed of 260 miles per hour, although that’s probably just as well since the entire journey only took 5 minutes as it was, anything over $3 per minute may have left me feeling slightly ripped off!

Like Bombay, Shanghai has just over 20 million inhabitants, around 90% of the population of Australia compressed into less than 0.1% of the land area 8-)… That density mixed with the new found wealth makes for a pretty impressive skyline. See below.

 

Leaving for Shanghai this morning, will return to Sydney next Monday.

Things are a bit different this trip as Diana and Ivy are travelling out to Shanghai on Wednesday, leaving Scarlett with Diana’s Aunt… This is all upside, all round. Scarlett will have a great time at Ujna’s house, we’ll (hopefully) have fun in Shanghai, Ivy will get lots of attention, and Diana will get to chill a bit… Sounds all good.

Leaving Scarlett behind is easy for me as I do it so often, however it’ll be hard for Diana, I’m sure having spoken with Scarlett twice or more each day she’ll realise that Scarlett prefers being at Ujna’s house, maybe that will upset her poor mummy more?