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... Seems a basset will go to great lengths to punish you for leaving them behind in New Zealand. If I didn’t know better I think this were Fortnum disguised as a shopping train. I know for sure that it’s not a real basset though as a basset just... It was a relief to look out of the hotel window this morning and see the true potential of Shanghai’s skyline. Little did I know at that point how dizzy this skyline would make me feel. Even with my feet planted firmly on the ground I spent most of the day... 您好 or in plain English - “nÃn hÇŽo”. Yes, the first leg of our journey North is over. We’ve arrived in Shanghai where we’ll be exploring for a few days before moving on to the main event of our trip away. There is really only one way... 