I took the overnight train to Shanghai on Saturday, arriving Sunday morning. The city is exciting, full of energy and light, smaller in scale and warmer than Beijing. The streets around Nanjing Hotel were closed for the running of the Shanghai marathon and I had to walk about 15 minutes through the crowds to get to the hotel door.
I was met by Master Gao and spend much of Sunday and Monday with friends and walking around the area by the hotel, Nanjing Dong Lu and the Bund. The photo shows the view from my hotel, the Pearl Tower dwarfing the smaller, old buildings that are doomed before long to destruction.
