Mark Gibson

They shoot idiots dont they..?

Posted on October 6th, 2007 by mark.
Categories: General News, Travelogue, China 2007.

We’ve definitely landed with a thump! absolutely no sleep on the flight although the others faired a little better. We got through the airport in reasonable time and out on to the maglev train for the exhilarating 8 minute 432Km/hour trip!

Our first welcome to China meal from Jiaxuan, the perfect hostess, was in one of those great fish restaurants that you can see what you get swimming around before you have it cooked and also included other dishes including goose, lamb and beef a cornucopia of delight washed down with plenty of Tsing Tao!

We decided a walk through Peoples Square would let our dinner go down where my family instantly turned into small David Baileys and spent a lot of time saving me from having to take photos for my blog.

Sleep that night included about 4 hours hardly making up for the trauma of the flight the night before followed by Breakfast starting with a typical Saturdays dim sum bonanza, I’m pretty sure I’ll never need to eat again! Startling everyone by showing a massive breakfast for 6 came to about £15

I reluctantly decided to leave the folks the pleasure of climbing Pearl TV tower for the views of Shanghai by themselves followed by the Shanghai exhibition at its base with the agreement to meet up with them on the Bund later in the day. I left to go and visit the local hospital to have a look at my foot which had been causing me some pain over the last wee while. So after a fairly short wait and shifting from one location to the next I was seen by the doctor and quite a few other patients waiting in the same waiting room (privacy values are a little different here, I wonder if its the same if you have a colonic or the rubber glove treatment??) Anyway after an x-ray and a short wait apparently I’ve been walking round for the last four weeks since Walthamstowe festival with a broken foot - so that’s why it’s painful….!

So now conscious of my injury I have now walked around most of Shanghai, introduced the folks to Sichuan cuisine and the Shanghai bar district

Time for bed I think!

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