To paraphrase a notoriously over-quoted English comedy sextet. Well, they conveniently popularised the English language for a start. It has to be said if you didn’t speak English, any sort of world travel would be far more laborious. With a basic grasp of English and a rudimentary knowledge of the rules of charades you can pretty much muddle your way through anything. You have to feel sorry for the European travellers clutching at their Chinese phrase books desperately trying to […]
The odd thing about China is the number of people doing jobs that you didn’t think even existed. I suppose that’s the net result of a Communist country and a huge population. For example in the restaurant this evening you have a meet and greet girl on the door, a gentleman to show you the menu before you get though the door, a head waiter to take you to your table, a different waiter to take your drinks order, a […]
…but can I change your brainwashing? Now don’t take this the wrong way. I believe in personal liberty, freedom and the American flag. Actually scrap that last bit, please feel free to print it out on recycled paper and burn it, along with the flag. Despite outward appearances to the contrary China is a still a Communist country. Information is heavily controlled in all walks of life. Great swathes of the Internet are censored, prone to return mysterious Chinese versions […]
So they’ve built a tunnel under the river to allow you to get to the other side. There’s one in Greenwich if memory serves me correctly. Fair enough. This being Shanghai they’ve turned it into an amusing lightshow to entertain the tourists. You have to pity the poor commuters who have to use it every day, especially if suffering a major hangover.
They just keep getting bigger and bigger… Let’s build another one here… ..and here. Small microdots, also known as people. There are some buildings in the smog somewhere honestly.
Excuse the blurry photography, I didn’t have my tripod with me…or something. It’s strangely surreal eh? There’s even a boat cruising up and down the river with a full size Cinemascope screen on the back showing film trailers. How crazy is that?
Ooh, that’s tasteful and so small as well at 367 metres. Let’s go to the top of it. Token flag shot. The view is not bad. Like being in a plane. A fairly average seven story shopping Mall. We went to a ‘San Fransisco Steak House’ to eat – the cowboy hat fitted in with their dress code quite nicely.