Twilight on The Bund...
Well, that's a wrap. Just short of 1 year and 2 months later, I'm outta here. Bye bye Shanghai, hello (once again) Copenhagen. It's been quite an experience, a year in China. Will there be more in the future? Who can say. Once the door to Asia has been opened - and believe me, it certainly has been - I suspect it's not such an easy one to close.
So for now, I'll just leave it with a few memories. These are pictures I've selected because they really do represent the day-to-day scenes that were my life in Shanghai - as opposed to those stereotypical shots of China that really don't represent the modern reality of the place. They are variations of scenes that I have witnessed countless times over the past months. So here we go...
Here we have a view from the 40th floor of the Mariott hotel - where we drank
martini's many a Friday evening after work...
That's the Mariott - incidently, my favourite building in Shanghai...
(aside from the 88 floor Jin Mao Tower).
A scene found repeatedly all over Shanghai (and China, for that matter)
Exercise is good for you!
Coke - it's everywhere you want it to be...
...and so is Pizza Hut!
Visit any grocery store to find this one...delicious chicken feet.
you can get it all on the street...
A little break...
This was never my barber, I can assure you...
And this was in front of a new, high-end apartment
complex - China will be China, no matter what clothes
one tries to fit it with...
Everybody would love a grasshopper for their living room, no?
Traffic, traffic, traffic....
and bikes, bikes, bikes...
A bike can pretty much carry anything...
Many, many floors above the ground, hanging by a rope, scrub scrub scrubbing
those windows...
The infamous bamboo scaffolding - I've seen this used on buildings up to 30 stories high,
which is quite a sight to see.
New buildings to live in, old laundry hanging out to dry...
Evening on The Bund...ya' gotta love it!
Um, yes, I did...
The Bund from the 88th floor of the Jin Mao Tower...
