"Mien Mien Ice" soooogood! It's a new thingy.
Xin Tian Di & Tian Zi Fang are two interesting tourist filled areas we ventured to with some family cousins currently living in Shanghai. They are akin to our Yorkville and Distillery scenes in TO.
Tian Zi Fang district of Shanghai
French Concession area
Soaking in nightlife in Nanjing East pedestrian blvd.
Waiting on the Big Bus Tour of Shanghai (two day excursion for $100yuan)
After all these week I am tired of flying around China and am looking forward to getting home. I think we have flown 7 times in China. I think what I am really tired of is flying around China in packed airplanes. Every flight we have been on was fully loaded. Everyone pushes and shove to get on and off the plan and you site there for an hour and a half looking at a sea of bad haircuts. Shanghai is not too bad. But everywhere else we went we are always fighting crowds after crowds and people pushing and shoving.
This is probably a good sign that more people are traveling and vacationing in China and is a indication that people are getting more wealthy here. But they need to learn to be more orderly. I think it is a habit after years of fighting for everything they want or need. No one is giving it to them.
One thing I still can't get used to is the washrooms in the smaller cities and towns. One advise if you are coming to China. Make sure you bring shoes that don't leak. You never know when you have to go. I think it will take another 5 years to work thought these sanitary, environmental and pollution issues.
(Tom's email home as we are boarding return flight back to Canada)
