Tag: Shanghai
London
I’m now working in IT which is mostly good fun so I don’t have much time for blogging anymore. I’m also learning a lot of new technologies too which is interesting. In fact the only reason I have time now is that I’m heading up to Manchester by train to meet up with a good [...]
Posted: August 9th, 2009 under Travelling.
Tags: Cambodia, Europe, London, Manchester, Shanghai, Singapore, trains, United Kingdom
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Smart cards
I’ve got some smart cards left over for Tokyo, Singapore and Shanghai and the latter two even have some credit on them so if you’re going to any of those cities and would like a smartcard then drop me an email. Note that the one for Tokyo is less useful as if you dont have [...]
Posted: April 1st, 2009 under Travelling.
Tags: China, Japan, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo
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Summary of the trip: Mainland Euroasia
I was always going to give some awards at the end of my trip and this is the award for the final third of the trip. As well as this I will follow this post with some overall awards which will include some additional awards as well. That post will follow this evening UK time. [...]
Posted: March 23rd, 2009 under Travelling.
Tags: Agra, Asia, Beijing, China, Europe, India, Malaysia, Russia, Shanghai, Singapore, St Petersburg, summary, Xian
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Shoes and Shanghai national museum
On my final day (Monday) in Shanghai I first had to buy some new shoes. My “bargain” shoes from New Zealand which cost NZ$25 (£8) turned out to be not so great and they were still so wet in the morning that I had to borrow the orange plastic flip flops from my hostel to [...]
Posted: February 25th, 2009 under Travelling.
Tags: Asia, China, culture, Shanghai, trains
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Shanghai
I arrived into Shanghai on Thursday afternoon and then headed to my hostel on the metro where in the evening I settled into my hostel. I met up with a canadian and we went out to buy some (fake) designer fake leather belts – I needed a belt to hold up my trousers so I [...]
Posted: February 23rd, 2009 under Travelling.
Tags: Asia, China, Shanghai
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Getting to Shanghai
Note that £1=¥9.71, $1=¥6.84 On Thursday I relaxed in the morning in my private room – the first since Cambodia and the last for the rest of my trip before catching the train to Shanghai. For breakfast I had a “British breakfast which consisted of fried eggs and tomato and orange juice and tea which [...]
Posted: February 19th, 2009 under Travelling.
Tags: Asia, China, Hangzhou, Shanghai, trains
Comments: 4