It sounded like a great idea – go camping on a farm on an island in the Yantze River. It sounded like it was going to be a peaceful and restful experience. Nobody told me that the campsite was under the flight path of Pudong International Airport, and that planes flew overhead every 90 seconds… Read More »
The West Bund is not a place I have spent much time in but went I took a shared bike from the metro I was pleasantly surprised at how peaceful and clean it is down there. There is an area of West Bund which is home to a variety of art galleries. When I was… Read More »
I didn’t need kitchen supplies but it was nice sunny spring day and I wanted to stretch my legs so I went up to the part of the city where you can pick up anything from a coffee machine to a rattan basket, delicate porcelain tea services to earthenware jugs. The firrst thing I noticed… Read More »
It’s not far to the metro station for Shanghai Sculpture Park – SheShan on Line 9. However, when you get there it’s a bit of scrum with buses and taxis and people whizzing around on shared bikes. Of course on a sunny weekend day in spring it’s even more frantic. I made the mistake of… Read More »
It had been a long time since I had been on an island in the Yangtze – at that time it was in Nanjing. But I had been intending to go and have a look at Chongming although my friends had always told me that it was a miserable place and definitely not worth going… Read More »