Sean said – Why not come to JiaXing with me on Sunday. And why not – what else is there to do. And so we jumped in a car with two of his business associates and burned down the Jiaxing. First stop was a pig theme park called Pig Planet – well, at least I… 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 »
In retrospect it wasn’t a very wise decision to go to Sheshan Forest Park on a public holiday but the sun was shining and it was warm and I was kicking my heels. A friend had told me early that day, over coffee, that there was a Catholic church on a mountain and I couldn’t… 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 »