There’s not that much graffiti around but I noticed someone had started tagging the brand new metal roller shutters the government are installing on Fuxing Lu. All the shop fronts along the stretch near Jiashan Lu have been ripped out replaced and the whole place is looking better. The shops which lines the street outside… Read More »
Now the new metro line 12 is open I decided to go to somewhere which sounded really exotic – Fuxing Island. It is an island in the Huangpu river and I thought it might be a little like the island in the river in Nanjing which has a certain charm and was a favourite away-day… Read More »
I don’t often go to the park on a week day but the opportunity presented itself and I had had a huge lunch with my Chinese mother and father and needed a walk. As usual there were a lot of people in the park and I spent a lot of time watching a group of… Read More »
A thought occurred to me when I was walking along Fuxing Lu today. I looked up and saw this dirty giant yellow truck with two hatches from which two men were peering. What is this truck? I couldn’t work it out. Why are their men inside looking out of the hatches. Nobody else seemed concerned… Read More »