Shanghai - day 1

Arrived in Shanghai at 7:00 am. Flight was on time. Hopped of the plane and caught the Maglev into the city outskirts. The Maglev is a very fast train and we reached speeds of 430 km/hr – very impressive. Afterwards we had to use the metro to get into the centre of the city. A very friendly chinese man saw us struggling for directions and gave us a hand. We arrived at our hotel at 10:00 and were able to check in. After a quick shower we left the hotel to explore. We had lunch at a local Cantonese restaurant and thankfully things are a lot less expensive than here in Europe. So far we have seen the Bund, an area next to the river with impressive old architecture. Looking across the river you can see Pudong which has modern skyscrapers which are also very impressive. Sorry we didn’t take the camera. We explored the main shopping street, Nanjing road, and Remnin square (city centre) before running out of steam due to jet lag. We were back at our Hotel at 4 pm and went to bed. Although we both work up late in the evening we managed to get back to sleep again before waking up at 4 am and watching some bad TV. We’ve just been down for breakfast and Mark had chinese wonton soup followed by japanese soup, pork dumplings, French toast, pancakes and croissants! I had cereal, pancakes, croissant and fruit. We’re off to explore now