Shanghai Surprise
Shanghai Surprise (Madonna, eat your heart out…as if you have one….ouch.)
Okay, enough ‘Madge’ bashing…
Shanghai was indeed a surprise. Last visit (2005) was lukewarm. Grudgingly, I’ll admit, they seem to have gotten at least part of their act together. Perhaps the flames of the pending Olympic torch have even reached as far south as Shanghai. In any event, while the construction boom (MIND BOGGLING) continues, the overall experience seems to have been tidied up, but not sanitized.
Nanjing Road. Who can resist this landmark passage that throws back to those Imperialistic days…sort of like the ‘Bund.’
YYC thanks to Mr. Liu Wei and Ms. Qi Rong for sharing their knowledge of the city—Cantonese dialect—and love.
While we had resisted the concept of visiting Shanghai again, we are now looking forward to the Encore. Much more user friendly in the western Sense of the word. More people speak English willingly here than in Tokyo. Trust us on this one.
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You really look at home. One of these days, I’m going to take you up on your invite and hit ASIA with that YYC gang. Thanks for the box–AND THE GREAT Chanel Suit (Find me that ’07C!) Michelle
As of late with the Olympics sham underway pending the Games in Beijing, the Chinese government has made it almost impossible to even get a one month Visa.
I work in HK and I have to reapply each time I enter now. Some of my French colleagues have even been denied and they worked in Kowloon for years with no issues.
Don’t know who YOU at yumyumcherry.com know, but share the wealth, it’s getting miserable.