Please enjoy this photo by turning your head slightly to the left. I'm quite pleased I even managed to find this photo given that all instructions are in chinese. This is a photo from outside the hotel window in Shang Hai on Wednesday, just after we'd arrived. Shang Hai is cold and grey. The bus ride from the airport took an hour by bus, driving past lots and lots of concrete and roadworks. Shang Hai is hosting world expo in 2010 and within half an hour you get a strong sense that the city is being spit and polished for the big event. Old apartment blocks are being torn down, roads are being widened and there are George Jetson like overpasses criss crossing the highway everywhere you look. Shang Hai is a city of 18 million people and they all live on top of one another. Skyscraper apartments everywhere, with the rather sweet addition of long johns and jumpers on washing lines hanging out of just about every balcony.
There is a big blue gumby like creature who is the rather cute mascot for world expo (photos may follow) and they have many inspirational messages around town along the lines of 'better city, better life'. No particular comments will be made about these inspirational messages as I'm in an internet cafe that scanned my passport before they let me log on and I perhaps would like to get a visa for China again in the future.
I might be developing a case of emphysyma in this cafe (Queensland Health hasn't got its health promotion messages to China quite yet) so I might sign off.
Love to all.
SB
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