Streets all around Shanghai are being repaved, or re-cobbled or re-bricked. This is all part of the spruce up effort for the expo. At the end I’m sure Shanghai will have some of the smartest pavements around. There seems to be a huge effort to conserve and... Shanghai seems like a million miles and lifetimes ago. Blogging about our adventures keeps the memories alive which is good because right now I’m living life like an out of body experience. The jet lag has kicked in big time making it hard to sleep at the... 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.... 