After what seems to be an age we arrived in London safe and sound. Just the small matter of having no luggage right now but I live in hope that the global baggage tracking system won’t let us down. International air travel is like a parallel universe where... It would have been nice to have more time in Shanghai. So we did. Not by choice though. The cargo doors on our plane refused to close so after several hours sitting on the plane we were decamped to a hotel for the night. We’re now waiting to catch another... After foot slogging around for a while it’s always nice to find a shady spot to glug back a bottle of cold water. This park was the perfect place for us to rest our weary legs. Just like the buildings in Shanghai the parks are being spruced up for the Expo.... I wished I’d become an architect. I desperately want to understand how people make buildings like these. How you piece together developments on an uber scale and what makes an architect create buildings like these. If I could make sense of the fundamentals... Shanghai has been an economic powerhouse of China for hundreds of years.  First as a trading port and now as the financial hub of the world’s economic hothouse. Right now there are feverish preparations across the city to showcase Shanghai’s economic... 