Shanghai - what a city! Unfortunately I couldn't access blogger there so I will try to put up some pictures this week. The best thing about the trip was being able to walk for miles and miles without usual complaints of sore feet, tiredness and constant wee-wee stops (mind you in Shanghai our boys would have had a field day - phrase "When in Rome..." comes to mind here!). Unexpectedly, the city was easy to make our way around and very safe - I think we did miss a couple of crucial tourist spots on our tour but we were more than happy with the daily Shanghai scenes we saw. What we didn't prepare ourselves for were people. It was (unknown to us until we got there) the Chinese National Day with a week's holiday. And it seemed the whole city went walkabout. Needless to say we were both overwhelmed and in awe.
To start and finish the trip we went on the Shanghai Maglev, the only commercial operating maglev train which operates to and from Pudong Airport and the city. The 30km distance is covered in just 7m 20secs!
We caught the 15:32 (which left on the second)
Peaking at 431km/h
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