The idea was to get the metro to Nanjing Road East station, find the sign pointing the way to the museum, and go there. Dead easy you might think. The first big mistake was to…

The only thing about Shanghai that I had heard of was the Bund, and it is the Number 1 tourist attraction. So we went there via the Nanjing Road East metro station, about 4 stations…

Day 70 (23rd July) Shanghai On this kind of trip there are brilliant days, good days, average days, bad days and crap days. This was the latter. The idea was to get a taxi to…

We almost missed the Maglev train to Shanghai because we were waiting in the wrong station, but got to the platform just as it arrived. We had had to buy first-class tickets the day before…

It was a case of getting a bus journey of over 5 hours from Fenghuang to Changsha or taking the Maglev high-speed train which took two hours from what, rather optimistically, called itself “Fenghuang high-speed…

Nothing much to say today. We went down the road to the riverside and, crossing a bridge, walked down a different side of the river. It was much better than last time because there was…