Shanghai
I've really on seen the area around the Bund in my time here, but it has been good fun and pretty interesting.
There's a branch of Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf near to the People's Square. Also some advertising for UCLA (I think they sell their clothes on the Nanjing Road).
As I think I said before, this place reminds me more of Japan than China, for the most part.
Yestreaday walked up to People's Square and looked around the shanghai museum which is a pretty good collection of art, furniture, calligraphy, statues, jade, seals.
Then walked down the Nanjing Road (which is big pedestrianised shopping street, capitalism at its finest, and absolutely crazy at night - daytime you get offered a constant stream of fake rolexes; nighttime instead ladybars and hashish...)
At Lawson, my second favourite chain of Japanese convenience stores (after FamilyMart) got some deodorant (I've been going without for about a week since my last tin ran out of vapour) and funny three layer sandwich (two layers of egg, one of ham) for lunch. Back at hostel, went for a second lunch at cheap (15 kwai for a big plate) restaurant - dumplings (fried), sweet&sour pork, rice, steamed vegetables, then put som elaundry in and sat down for a quick beer with the intention of heading out after laundry was done.
Got drinking with a man from luxemburg called Bob who has lived in china for 5yrs. Ended up drinking with him all afternoon, and with various other people who joined in - some people who'd been intending to teach english for 6 weeks but had been flooded out, a couple of dutchmen.
At around 19h went back to same chinese restaurant for dinner (and had almost the same dishes). Spoke drunken french at Bob. Then we went to the bund and sat by the river drinking until 2am, playing with the street urchin kids who seem delighted for people to pay them some attention rather than just shoo them away, lits sparklers that some dude was handing out for free, lamented th fgact that such a developed money-rich city still has street urchins.
After that one last beer in the hostel which we hardly drunk any of and then sleepy bye bye... sat this morning for four hours then went back to bed and lay in discomfort for the rest of the day. American chick from last night appeared to be in similar state (only her and me and a scottish lass made it all the way to the end of the session).
Quote of day is from Maarten, a dutch developmental psychologist "Ben, sometimes I think you are deliberately fucking with me." Some people work me out so quickly.
Tomorrow morning to Seoul.
There's a branch of Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf near to the People's Square. Also some advertising for UCLA (I think they sell their clothes on the Nanjing Road).
As I think I said before, this place reminds me more of Japan than China, for the most part.
Yestreaday walked up to People's Square and looked around the shanghai museum which is a pretty good collection of art, furniture, calligraphy, statues, jade, seals.
Then walked down the Nanjing Road (which is big pedestrianised shopping street, capitalism at its finest, and absolutely crazy at night - daytime you get offered a constant stream of fake rolexes; nighttime instead ladybars and hashish...)
At Lawson, my second favourite chain of Japanese convenience stores (after FamilyMart) got some deodorant (I've been going without for about a week since my last tin ran out of vapour) and funny three layer sandwich (two layers of egg, one of ham) for lunch. Back at hostel, went for a second lunch at cheap (15 kwai for a big plate) restaurant - dumplings (fried), sweet&sour pork, rice, steamed vegetables, then put som elaundry in and sat down for a quick beer with the intention of heading out after laundry was done.
Got drinking with a man from luxemburg called Bob who has lived in china for 5yrs. Ended up drinking with him all afternoon, and with various other people who joined in - some people who'd been intending to teach english for 6 weeks but had been flooded out, a couple of dutchmen.
At around 19h went back to same chinese restaurant for dinner (and had almost the same dishes). Spoke drunken french at Bob. Then we went to the bund and sat by the river drinking until 2am, playing with the street urchin kids who seem delighted for people to pay them some attention rather than just shoo them away, lits sparklers that some dude was handing out for free, lamented th fgact that such a developed money-rich city still has street urchins.
After that one last beer in the hostel which we hardly drunk any of and then sleepy bye bye... sat this morning for four hours then went back to bed and lay in discomfort for the rest of the day. American chick from last night appeared to be in similar state (only her and me and a scottish lass made it all the way to the end of the session).
Quote of day is from Maarten, a dutch developmental psychologist "Ben, sometimes I think you are deliberately fucking with me." Some people work me out so quickly.
Tomorrow morning to Seoul.
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