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So, I'm alive! And apparently can post to LJ/DW from the connection in the hotel - bring it on!
Unfortunately no photos just yet since I don't have wifi access on my phone so I can't send the pics. Result: a wordy travelogue without pics.
Flight over - QANTAS, uninterrupted, fairly good. Food was average, although the hot choc they offered was nice. I had a double-seat to myself, and had time to do some sorting out of what I'm going to write this holiday.
Writing time is probably going to be first thing in the morning, before we go out. We're not likely to venture out before 8am, so if I wake up at 7 and write like crazy, I should get at least 500 words done a day!
Shanghai was cold. Not freezing, just Sydney-winter type cold. Until the wind got you. Then it froze your ears.
The unit we're staying in is near Dashijie on the Shanghai Metro. The apartment block is called New Century services Apartments and while the apartment itself is very nice (everything new and clean, and typically Chinese in style, with an American-style toilet - the whirlpool 'sucking' kind), the amenities are not the best - it's a 2 bedroom apartment, with 3 people registered, and they've only provided dishes for 2 people...and tried to charge us when we asked for more! Mum is not impressed.
It's quite a good area - Huangpu - near People's Square, west of the Bund and north-west of Old Town. The Metro can take you anywhere and everywhere through town, although I suspect we'll be sticking mostly to the local area.
We walked out to get 'supper' last night since we had lunch and dinner on the plane, and we ended up having Japanese! Come halfway across the world and eat Japanese. However, today, the plan is to wander around town and work out what we're doing for the rest of the week (mum wants to go to the fabric markets...and I have no objection to that!) and will probably graze at street vendors as we go. Last night, on the way back to the apartment, there were street vendors with hot-coal cooktops parked at the street corners - dumplings, apples, baked sweet potato, skewer sticks with meats and vegetables threaded on. I couldn't vouch for the cleanliness of it all, but I have a cast iron stomach so I'm trusting to that!
Unfortunately no photos just yet since I don't have wifi access on my phone so I can't send the pics. Result: a wordy travelogue without pics.
Flight over - QANTAS, uninterrupted, fairly good. Food was average, although the hot choc they offered was nice. I had a double-seat to myself, and had time to do some sorting out of what I'm going to write this holiday.
Writing time is probably going to be first thing in the morning, before we go out. We're not likely to venture out before 8am, so if I wake up at 7 and write like crazy, I should get at least 500 words done a day!
Shanghai was cold. Not freezing, just Sydney-winter type cold. Until the wind got you. Then it froze your ears.
The unit we're staying in is near Dashijie on the Shanghai Metro. The apartment block is called New Century services Apartments and while the apartment itself is very nice (everything new and clean, and typically Chinese in style, with an American-style toilet - the whirlpool 'sucking' kind), the amenities are not the best - it's a 2 bedroom apartment, with 3 people registered, and they've only provided dishes for 2 people...and tried to charge us when we asked for more! Mum is not impressed.
It's quite a good area - Huangpu - near People's Square, west of the Bund and north-west of Old Town. The Metro can take you anywhere and everywhere through town, although I suspect we'll be sticking mostly to the local area.
We walked out to get 'supper' last night since we had lunch and dinner on the plane, and we ended up having Japanese! Come halfway across the world and eat Japanese. However, today, the plan is to wander around town and work out what we're doing for the rest of the week (mum wants to go to the fabric markets...and I have no objection to that!) and will probably graze at street vendors as we go. Last night, on the way back to the apartment, there were street vendors with hot-coal cooktops parked at the street corners - dumplings, apples, baked sweet potato, skewer sticks with meats and vegetables threaded on. I couldn't vouch for the cleanliness of it all, but I have a cast iron stomach so I'm trusting to that!
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